Rizki Nur Amalia,1 Menaldi Rasmin2
1Departemen Pulmonologi dan Kedokteran Respirasi, Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Airlangga, RSUP Dr.Soetomo, Surabaya
2Departemen Pulmonologi dan Kedokteran Respirasi, Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Indonesia, RSUP Persahabatan, Jakarta
Abstract
Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease that affects neuromuscular transmission causing muscle weakness in local and wide.
Myasthenic crisis is an emergency in the field of neurological very important, serious but reversible, which is found in 20-30% of patients within the first year of the disease. Most patients have predisposing factors that stimulate the onset of the crisis. The most common is Myasthenia gravis. Tract infection is one of the largest case in a group of neuromuscular disease that causes respiratory failure in addition to Guillain barre syndrome. (J Respir Indo. 2016; 36: 113-6)
Keywords: Respiratory failure, myasthenia gravis, neuromuscular