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Case Reports
. 2006 Nov 7;175(10):1203.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.060488.

An adult patient with new-onset dysphagia

Kieran McIntyre  1 , Simon McVaugh-Smock, Ophyr Mourad
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An adult patient with new-onset dysphagia

Kieran McIntyre et al. CMAJ. .
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Fig. 1: Imaging results during the Tensilon test. Videofluorographs before (left) and immediately after an intravenous administration of 10 mg of edrophonium. The patient's swallowing mechanism showed a rapid and complete recovery in all aspects (right) after receiving the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. Because edrophonium is a short-acting, the response is transient and useful only as a test.
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Fig. 2: SFEMG (single-fibre electromyography) of a normal control (left) and our patient with myasthenia gravis. Increased variability (known as “jitter”) in our patient (right) was consistent with a neurotransmission abnormality.
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