title: [Esophageal perforation in a patient with myasthenia gravis].
abstract: This case report presents a 75-year-old woman suffering from myasthenia gravis who developed a Candida oesophagitis and oesophageal perforation with abdominal fistula under medication with pyridostigmin, azathioprine and prednisolone. Therapy was ultrasound-guided abdominal drainage and endoscopical mediastinal drainage. Under permanent lavage as well as antibiotic and antimycotic therapy the fistula healed within 26 days. The patient was fed via a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy all the time.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik I, Klinikum am Steinenberg, Reutlingen. mueller_tho@klin-rt.de
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Braun
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004939:Esophageal Perforation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome