title: Repetitive nerve stimulation and exercise testing.
abstract: Repetitive nerve stimulation and exercise testing are useful in the evaluation of patients with suspected disorders of the NMJ and muscle membrane excitability when performed with close attention to technical factors. They can be very helpful in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis. Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, and botulism, as well as rare disorders of skeletal muscle membrane excitability, including paramyotonia congenita, myotonia congenita, myotonic dystrophy, and the periodic paralyses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-5098, USA. bes002@aol.com
authors.forename: Barbara E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Preston
mesh_terms: D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004576:Electromyography / Q000379:methods*; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*