Miastenia gravis en pacientes mayores de 50 años
Summary,. Introduction. A study was made in the Clinical Provincial H surgical Teaching saturmino Lora in santiago de Cuba. A group of 23 patients over 50 years old attended this course and were treated for the onset of myasthenia gravis between January 1983 and December 1997, Objective and methods. To determine some of the clinical and evolutive characteristics of the disease such as: sex, age of onset, initial symptoms of the illness, clinical forms and also the different types of treatment used, evolution and mortalin, Results and conclusions. There was a clear predominance of, the commonest age of onset was from sixty to seventy, the predominant clinical forms were generalized (mild or moderate, and the i symptoms were ocular. The most commonly used treatment was by anticholinesterases and steroids. There is significant variability in the evolution of these patients. The larger group improved., However, there was high mortality, mainly in older man
