[Clinical-EMG characteristic of myasthenia gravis associated with thyroid pathology].

On the basis of clinical-EMG analyses, the researches have revealed the criteria characteristic of myasthenia associated with thyroid pathologies. The myasthenia process associated with thyroid pathology is mainly characterized as of generalized average intensity. Alongside with mup-s with reduced duration and amplitude characteristic of myasthenia, EMG exposes potentials with comparatively long duration and high amplitude (mainly when the process is associated with thyreotoxycosis).

[Dynamics of restoration of the motor and sensory functions of the upper extremity after suturing].

In 46 patients 63 nerves of upper extremities were sutured and clinico-electroneuromyographic investigations performed. The restitution of motor and sensory functions ran slowly over 7 to 36 months depending on the level injured. Full restoration of motor functions surpassed the restoration of sensory functions in the autonomic zone of the nerve lesioned.

[Clinical analysis of familial forms of myasthenia].

Having studied 29 cases of myasthenia observed in 12 families, as well as 578 relatives of 59 patients with myasthenia, the authors have identified clinical characteristics of familial forms of myasthenia and the frequency of familial myasthenia among patient's relatives. It has been shown that familial forms of myasthenia are characterized by the appearance of a number of symptoms that are not typical of the common sporadic forms of myasthenia, which indicates the involvement, in addition to synaptic structures, of distal portions of peripheral nerves and/or muscle fibers. In families of myasthenic patients there is an extremely high rate of collagenoses, allergic diseases, diabetes, thyroid disease and malignant tumors.

[Clinico-epidemiologic aspects of myasthenia in the Georgian SSR].

A study of 161 myasthenic patients (91 women, 70 men) living in Georgia has shown that the incidence of myasthenia (M) in this republic is 3.2 per 100,000. A generalized form of M with bulbar disorders occurred most frequently (45.