Psychosocial aspects in patients with myasthenia gravis

Abstract

Myasthenia gravis patients usually present with fluctuating, asymmetrical stress-dependent weakness in the absence of other neurological disturbances. In weak patients psychopathological disturbances are frequently reported and misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder. The question to what extent psychiatric symptoms are involved in MG is still open. The case report presented here shows exemplary that psychopathological disturbances in exacerbated myasthenic patients are temporary and completely reversible after adequate somatic therapy.