Following FDA approval of Imaavy, we explore promising biotech candidates in development for myasthenia gravis.

It’s a lifelong autoimmune neuromuscular disease. It causes certain muscles to weaken easily after you use them. Muscle fatigue typically varies throughout the day (sometimes hour by hour) and ...

When the muscles needed for breathing are affected, a patient is said to be in myasthenic crisis. This is a life-threatening situation. Though anyone can get myasthenia gravis, those most likely ...

When the muscle weakness caused by myasthenia gravis worsens, affecting the muscles in your chest and diaphragm and reducing your ability to breathe, it’s called a myasthenic crisis. A ...

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease that blocks ... the jaw and throat or respiratory muscles is called a myasthenic crisis and occurs in about 10 percent of people who have MG, according ...

Imaavy is the first FcRn blocker approved for anti-AChR and anti-MuSK antibody positive patients with generalized myasthenia gravis. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Imaavy ...

Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is "a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue," says Hesterlee. It occurs "when a person’s immune system is essentially ...

Among 42 patients living with diagnosed generalized myasthenia gravis, those who also had the ... started eculizumab because of a myasthenic crisis (27.3%), an impending myasthenic crisis (22.7 ...

Myasthenia gravis is a rare neuromuscular disease in ... neck that secretes hormones that regulate metabolism. Myasthenic crisis: In a myasthenic crisis, the respiratory muscles become so weak ...

Currently, the myasthenic crisis mortality rate is 4.4%. Myasthenia gravis is a neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness throughout your body. Symptoms of myasthenia gravis include ...

A crisis can be triggered by infections, severe stress, or surgery. It affects about 10% of people living with myasthenia gravis. During a myasthenic crisis, this muscle weakness blocks the upper ...

The aim of myasthenia gravis treatments is to help reduce muscle weakness and improve a person’s quality of life. If a person experiences a myasthenic crisis, then emergency treatment may be ...