Respiratory dysfunction as first presentation of myasthenia gravis misdiagnosed as COVID-19.
Giuseppe ScopellitiMaurizio OsioMassimo ArquatiLeonardo PantoniPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2020)
Respiratory dysfunction as first clinical manifestation of myasthenia gravis is rare, but potentially very harmful. Emergency physicians should always consider neurological diseases when dyspnea cannot be explained by cardiac or respiratory causes.