Overview
- Written by experts in the field
- This book provides in-depth information for clinicians to allow them to appreciate the wide range of clinical presentations with myasthenia gravis
- Unique to this edition are the chapters on animal models of myasthenia gravis, clinical trial development for myasthenia gravis, and emerging therapies for myasthenia gravis
Part of the book series: Current Clinical Neurology (CCNEU)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
The third edition of this important, gold-standard title outlines a range of significant advances in the study and understanding of myasthenia gravis. The overarching goal of this new edition is identical to the first and second -- to provide the clinician and the scientist with a common resource for understanding the profound achievements in the clinical, translational, and basic sciences of neuromuscular transmission disorders. In addition to several new authors and an extensive update of all chapters, this third edition includes summaries of pre-clinical research standards for autoimmune MG, along with a broad summary of MG clinical trial performance. The now greater understanding of the clinical presentation of MuSK-related MG and identification of potential new autoantigens, including LRP-4, is discussed. The development of treatment guidelines by groups in Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and an international consortium is also outlined. Myasthenia Gravisand Related Disorders, Third Edition, is an invaluable resource for meeting the many and varied needs of clinicians who treat patients with myasthenia gravis.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Henry J. Kaminski, MD
Meta A. Neumann Professor and Chair of Neurology
The George Washington University
Department of Neurology
Washington, DC, USA
Linda L. Kusner, PhD
Associate Professor
The George Washington University
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Washington, DC, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders
Editors: Henry J. Kaminski, Linda L. Kusner
Series Title: Current Clinical Neurology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73585-6
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73584-9Published: 03 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08815-6Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73585-6Published: 13 March 2018
Series ISSN: 1559-0585
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4043
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIII, 353
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurology, Neurosciences, Immunology, Pneumology/Respiratory System