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Psychogenic pseudo-myasthenic ptosis - management with ayurvedic medicines and meditation.
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Objectives: Patients presenting with functional neurological symptoms like non-epileptic seizures and weakness have an underlying psychological component and tend to persist for a prolonged time, despite repeated evaluations and interventions. Ayurveda, with its holistic approach to health and disease, can provide better management for such disorders, in the form of customized treatment protocols and unique methods of psychotherapy.
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February 2020
Dept. of Neurology, Keio University School of Medicine.
The specific characteristics of neuromuscular immune-related adverse events(irAEs)including myasthenia gravis have not been elucidated because the frequency is generally low, ranging from 1-2% of cancer patients undergoing therapy with programmed cell death 1(PD-1)inhibitors. Inflammatory myopathy(myositis)is also one of the representative neuromuscular irAEs. A variety of studies have demonstrated that myositis as an irAE is often accompanied by ocular muscle symptoms, which physicians have often termed "myasthenia-like" or "pseudo-myasthenic".
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