Quality of Life in Myasthenia Gravis and Correlation of MG-QOL15 with Other Functional Scales.

ABSTRACT: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in myasthenia gravis (MG) is frequently decreased. Further, there are many validated clinical scales and questionnaires to evaluate the clinical status in MG. We aimed to determine if there was an improvement in HRQOL following an intensive treatment for MG, identify which demographic and clinical features influenced patients' HRQOL, and investigate if the questionnaire MG-QOL15 correlated with other evaluation scales. We recruited 45 patients with generalised MG who were starting immunomodulatory treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins and prednisone for the first time. At each visit, we administered several validated scales for MG. The mean MG-QOL15 score improved significantly at 4 and 6 weeks of the study. Additionally, the MG-QOL15 score corre

SUBMITTER: Diez Porras L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9025772 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature