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MYASTHENIA Cohort: Myasthenia Gravis: diagnostic, prognostic and therapy response markers

Study Description:
The course and degree of severity of myasthenia gravis (MG) vary greatly from individual to the next. To date there have been no clinical, genetic or immunological markers that permit a prediction of the form the myasthenia will take and thus a prognosis. By means of the myasthenia cohort, prognostic parameters are to be identified that allow the course (ocular, generalized, myasthenic crisis), the response to treatment (pyridostigmine, steroids, immunosuppressants, thymectomy) and the long-term course to be predicted early on. In addition, biomarkers are to be identified which predict disease activity (remissions and/or exacerbation of the disease). Furthermore, new scientific hypotheses and findings are to be investigated on the basis of the study population, which is to be systematically examined for a period of ten years and is expected to be very well defined, both clinically and paraclinically.

Principle Investigator: Prof. Dr. Andreas Meisel (WG Cerebrovascular Diseases, NCRC, CSB, Neurology CCM)

Course of the study: 03/2011

Publications:
Hoffmann, S., J. Ramm, U. Grittner, S. Kohler, J. Siedler, and A. Meisel. "Fatigue in Myasthenia Gravis: Risk Factors and Impact on Quality of Life." Brain Behav 6, no. 10 (Oct 2016): e00538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.538. Link

Stascheit, F., B. Hotter, S. Hoffmann, S. Kohler, S. Lehnerer, A. Sputtek, and A. Meisel. "Calprotectin as Potential Novel Biomarker in Myasthenia Gravis." J Transl Autoimmun 4 (2021): 100111. Link.