Abstract
To provide real-word clinical follow-up data on patients carrying variations of congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) and who respond to some innovative drugs. Patients recruited from the Neurology Department of the Mustapha Bacha university hospital in Algiers. Treated with innovative drugs, they were monitored and their clinical progress was evaluated on the basis of clinical arguments suggestive of CMSs, but also para clinical arguments (electromyography and genetic study). Six patients carrying different mutations in different genes of CMSs were studied. They had different pathophysiologic profiles (slow or fast channel syndromes, low expressor of receptor). Their therapeutic management was based on innovative drugs, normally indicated in other, non-neurological pathologies. Their outcome was toward a clear clinical improvement. This work relates the interest of proposing treatments (outside of Pyridostigmine) in the management of CMSs. These therapies can greatly modify the prognosis of patients suffering from this orphan disease. This study provides Class IV evidence that for patients with congenital myasthenic syndromes, some innovative treatments are effective.
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