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My journey with myasthenia gravis: a chronic autoimmune disease #shorts

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Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles, which are responsible for breathing and moving parts of the body, including the arms and legs. The weakness occurs because the immune system produces antibodies that attack and destroy the receptors for acetylcholine, a chemical that transmits messages from the nerve to the muscle. As a result, the muscle doesn’t receive the necessary signals to contract and becomes weak.

In severe cases, the weakness can affect the muscles involved in breathing, leading to a myasthenic crisis, which is a medical emergency characterized by extreme muscle weakness and difficulty breathing. This can be a life-threatening situation and requires immediate medical attention.

Heather Finlay-Morreale is a pediatrician.

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Joint pain in hands and fingers | Causes, Prevention & Treatment – Dr. Mohan M R | Doctors' Circle

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Dr. Mohan M R | Appointment booking number: 8022540900
Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon | Nano Hospitals, Hulimavu Bangalore
This basically indicates that there is a pain and inflammation of the small joints. These are the smaller joints where there is pain. The commonest reason for this is a trauma. There is a major trauma and a minor trauma based on the history we will be able to know and based on the examination we will be able to know whether it is a trauma related , but more so common with a spontaneous pain in the hand joint and the finger joints is called as inflammatory arthritis were there area different arthritis of the inflammatory arthritis. The commonest in the inflammatory arthritis is the post viral. Of late we see a lot of small joint arthritis following viral fever. After sometimes the patient will find pain in the fingers and the joints and there will be morning stiffness and we will feel more so pain in the morning. As you keep using the finger joints, you will feel better these are the classical signs and there are more serious forms of reactive arthritis or more severe forms of inflammatory arthritis, it can be classified as rheumatoid arthritis. But that has to be labeled based on the ACL criteria. So I would suggest you to visits an orthopedic surgeon or a rheumatologist whether any of the serious inflammatory arthritis is present there or not.

Dr. Leslie Sisco-Wise and Dr. Ross Dunbar discuss what causes trigger finger and how to treat it. Dr. Sisco-Wise says, “Most people in the beginning will complain of pain in the palm and then over time it’s actually where you get a clicking of the tendon that’s getting stuck and the finger may get stuck.”

To learn more about Ochsner’s Hand and Upper Extremity Center, please visit: https://www.ochsner.org/services/hand-care/

Mental Health Minute: Anxiety Disorders in Adults

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Got 60 seconds? Take a mental health minute to learn about anxiety disorders in adults.

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NIH-funded researchers discovered that people with disorders traditionally thought to be distinct — autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia — were more likely to have suspect genetic variation at the same four chromosomal sites. Bruce Cuthbert, Ph.D., director of NIMH’s Division of Adult Translational Research, explains the significance of the study findings for diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses.

For the full story, see: Five Major Mental Disorders Share Genetic Roots
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2013/five-major-mental-disorders-share-genetic-roots.shtml

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