Effect of Maternal Myasthenia on Delivery and the Newborn

Authors

  • J Gordon Millichap Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-17-12-9

Keywords:

Myasthenia Gravis, Premature Rupture of Amniotic Membranes, Thymectomy

Abstract

The effect of pre-existing myasthenia gravis (MG) on delivery and the newborn was investigated in a retrospective study of 127 births by mothers with MG compared to 1.9 million births by mothers without MG at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Published

2003-12-01

Issue

Section

Neuromuscular Disorders