PEDIATRICS Vol. 4 No. 1 July 1949, pp. 16-20
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CONGENITAL MYASTHENIA GRAVIS

HERNANDEZ G. LABRANCHE M.D.1 and RONALD N. JEFFERSON M.D.1

1 The Department of Pediatrics, Provident Hospital, Chicago, Ill.

A case of congenital myasthenia gravis has been presented. Familial and possible hereditary cases of this disease previously reported have been listed, and a short discussion of the disease presented.

No definite statement can be made that myasthenia gravis is hereditary or familial, but this case and those previously reported indicate familial and possible hereditary aspects.

Submitted on October 18, 1948