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Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Myasthenic Crisis

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Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune neuromuscular transmission disorder characterized by muscle weakness. This serious, but treatable, disease is the most frequent primary neuromuscular disorder.

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  1. Physiotherapy Departament, University Hospital, Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA), Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Cristiane Brenner Eilert Trevisan (Physiotherapist and associated professor)

  2. Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, UFRGS and Critical Care Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Silvia Regina Rios Vieira (Associated professor)

  3. Physiotherapist-Hospital’s Physiotherapy team, Mãe de Deus Hospital, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Renata Plestch

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Correspondence to Cristiane Brenner Eilert Trevisan .

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    Antonio Matías Esquinas

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Trevisan, C.B.E., Vieira, S.R.R., Plestch, R. (2010). Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Myasthenic Crisis. In: Esquinas, A. (eds) Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11365-9_25

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