Depression in myasthenia gravis: a heterogeneous and intriguing entity.

Journal of Neurology
Yury V GavrilovYulia Valko

Abstract

Depressive symptoms in myasthenia gravis (MG) are common, may mimic other disease features, and contribute to misdiagnosis and diagnostic delay. Nevertheless, the clinical determinants of depressive symptoms in MG remain poorly studied, in particular their overlap with fatigue. Moreover, studies in MG have rarely looked at distinct depression phenotypes. In 68 consecutive MG patients, we ascertained cognitive-affective and somatic depression with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and also assessed age at disease onset, education, marital state, work ability, sleepiness, fatigue, and treatment modalities. Disease severity was graded according to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MGFA) classification. The prevalence of moderate-severe depression was 20.5%. While depression and fatigue showed large overlap (n = 37, 54.4%), only fatigue increased with disease severity, while BDI scores did not. Thymectomy was independently associated with lower BDI scores, but had no impact on fatigue. Total BDI scores were similar in patients with predominantly cognitive-affective and with predominantly somatic depression. However, ESS correlated only with cognitive-affective BDI, and younger age was independently associated with cog...Continue Reading

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