Double-step repetitive stimulation in myasthenia gravis
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Muscle & Nerve
- Vol. 10 (3), 233-237
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.880100306
Abstract
The double‐step technique of repetitive nerve stimulation was compared with repetitive nerve stimulation to a distal and a proximal muscle and with single fiber needle electromyography in 10 patients with myasthenia gravis. We conclude that the double‐step technique is slightly more sensitive than repetitive nerve stimulation to a proximal muscle but only 60% as sensitive as single fiber electromyography in demonstrating abnormal neuromuscular transmission in myasthenia gravis.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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