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Clinical characteristics of anti-AChR-MuSK-LRP4 antibody-negative myasthenia gravis in China.

Muscle & Nerve 2023 June
INTRODUCTION/AIMS: Descriptions of the clinical characteristics of anti-AChR-MuSK-LRP4 antibody-negative myasthenia gravis (triple-negative myasthenia gravis, TNMG) are lacking in the current literature. Therefore, we investigated the clinical characteristics of TNMG in Chinese patients.

METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed 925 patients with MG registered in the Department of Neuroimmunology, Henan Institute of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences from January 2015 to March 2021.

RESULTS: One hundred six patients diagnosed with TNMG were included in the study. The average age of onset was 32.4 y, with a male-to-female ratio of 1:1. The age of onset showed a bimodal distribution: 0-9 y and 40-49 y. Adult patients were more likely to have weakness of limb and bulbar muscles (p < .05). Thymic hyperplasia was found in 20.2% of the patients. Younger patients were more likely to relapse. The rate of adult early-onset myasthenia gravis reaching complete stable remission and pharmacological remission was 47.6%, and the prognosis was better than that in juvenile-onset myasthenia gravis (p = .019). Older age of onset was the only risk factor for the development of generalized TNMG from ocular TNMG (R = 1.046, p = .002, 95% confidence interval 1.017-1.077).

DISCUSSION: This study showed that the clinical characteristics of patients with TNMG varied among the different age groups. Significant findings included a bimodal distribution of onset age, coexisting thymic hyperplasia, and a generally favorable prognosis.

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