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A 65-year-old construction worker went to see his physician complaining about double vision (diplopia). He also reported having difficulty in chewing and swallowing food and slurring of speech at times. He was referred to a neurologist who observed a weakness in the patient's facial muscles and tongue and an abnormality in his ocular movements and droopy eyelids (ptosis). An ELISA on serum antibodies revealed elevated titers of antibodies to the acetylcholine receptor. the most likely diagnosis :- A) Graves Disease B) Multiple Sclerosis C) Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (type I) D) Rheumatoid Arthritis E) Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia F) Myasthenia Gravis G) Systemic Lupus Erythematosus H) Hashimoto's Thyroiditis I) Goodpasture's syndrome
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F the symptoms described are characteristic of the severe muscle weakness observed in myasthenia gravis. The disease results from the production of auto-antibody specific for the acetylcholine receptor, which blocks acetylcholine's transmitter function at the neuromuscular junction.
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