Year 2020 / Volume 112 / Number 6
Letter
Digestive involvement in a patient with Lambert-Eaton syndrome

510-511

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2020.6846/2019

María del Mar Díaz Alcázar, Antonio José Ruiz-Rodríguez, Alicia Martín-Lagos Maldonado,

Abstract
We present the case of a 50-year-old male diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, secondary to thymoma or Lambert-Eaton syndrome during the study of repeated vomiting. Gastrointestinal symptoms persisted despite the treatment of the thymoma. He suffered from sigma volvulus that required sigmoidectomy 9 years after diagnosis. Neuromuscular junction disorders are not characterized by gastrointestinal involvement, as in our case. They have previously sporadically been related to intestinal motility dysfunction.
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Díaz Alcázar M, Ruiz-Rodríguez A, Martín-Lagos Maldonado A. Digestive involvement in a patient with Lambert-Eaton syndrome. 6846/2019


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Publication history

Received: 25/12/2019

Accepted: 01/01/2020

Online First: 04/06/2020

Published: 08/06/2020

Article Online First time: 162 days

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