Statin‐associated necrotizing autoimmune myopathy with concurrent myasthenia gravis

Abstract

Abstract Statin treatment has been associated with necrotizing autoimmune myopathy and has been linked to myasthenia gravis. We present an unprecedented clinical challenge with both disorders occurring in a patient treated with statins few months earlier.

Keywords

• autoimmune disease
• myasthenia gravis
• necrotizing autoimmune myopathy
• statins