“Dawn, what you have is extremely rare. It’s so rare that most doctors won’t see another patient with it during their entire careers.” These were the last words I expected to hear from my neurologist, Dr. Roople Unia, when she called to give me the results from my voltage-gated…
Contrary to current thinking, testing for levels of antibodies against voltage-gated calcium channels may not be highly specific for Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS), researchers caution in a recent study. The study, “Low specificity of voltage-gated calcium channel antibodies in Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome: a call for caution,” was published…
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