4.The man, Rufino Borrego, told Portuguese media that a neurologist has found after more than four decades that he suffered from a different disease myasthenia, which unlike the initial diagnosis of muscular dystrophy, is curable.
5.In very rare cases, myasthenia gravis can present as a paraneoplastic syndrome, which means that an underlying cancer like bronchogenic carcinoma or thymic neoplasm (also known as thymoma) generates an immune response which results in generation of autoantibodies.