RT Journal
A1 Sanders DB, Johns TR
T1 PEptic ulcer in myasthenia gravis
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD March 10
VO 207
IS 10
SP 1875
OP 1877
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03150230089010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150230089010
AB Gastric ulcers developed in four patients with myasthenia gravis while they were receiving therapy for their myasthenia. A conservative regimen healed the ulcers in two patients, and two required surgical procedures. A combination of etiologic factors seemed to be responsible for the development of ulceration in these patients. It is desirable to attempt a medical, rather than surgical, cure of the ulcers in such patients; however, if proper precautions are taken, complications of surgical treatment need not occur.