People with myasthenia gravis are likely to have the following complications:
Myasthenia gravis crisis
Myasthenia gravis crisis or myasthenia crisis is one of the most serious complications of myasthenia gravis. Myasthenia crisis characterizes as the condition in which there is extreme muscular weakness especially of the chest and diaphragm muscles that help the lungs in breathing. Breathing becomes ineffective or shallow during myasthenia crisis. A build up of secretions and fatigued throat muscles cause the blockage of air way thus further adding up to the breathing insufficiency. Myasthenia crisis is an emergency situation for patients particularly for the older patients of myasthenia gravis. The condition of myasthenia crisis might develop due to emotional stress, lack of medicine, respiratory infection, surgery, or physical exertion. In serious cases of myasthenia gravis crisis, the patient needs a ventilator to breathe normally until the chest muscles regain their strength to support breathing.