Journal article
Persistent facial myokymia associated with K+ channel antibodies
Neurology, Vol.57(9), pp.1707-1708
2001
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.57.9.1707
PMID: 11706117
Abstract
A 58-year-old woman developed bilateral facial myokymia in 1978, persisting for the next 23 years and associated with high titers of voltage-gated K(+) channel (VGKC) antibodies. Brain imaging failed to show a pontine lesion. The clinical facial myokymia and electromyographic doublets and multiplets (43 to 250 Hz) were milder and more restricted than those seen in generalized neuromyotonic disorders with VGKC antibodies. This case and another reported recently represent a focal VGKC antibody syndrome.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Persistent facial myokymia associated with K+ channel antibodies
- Creators
- Ludwig GUTMANN - Department of Neurology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United StatesJohn G TELLERS - Department of Neurology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United StatesSteven VERNINO - Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neurology, Vol.57(9), pp.1707-1708
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Hagerstown, MD
- DOI
- 10.1212/WNL.57.9.1707
- PMID
- 11706117
- ISSN
- 0028-3878
- eISSN
- 1526-632X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9984020653302771
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