Resumen

SANTISTEBAN AGUILERA, Francisca et al. Syndrome of Usher associated to miastenia gravis and schizophrenia. MEDISAN [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1029-3019.

The case of a patient attended at "Saturnino Lora" Provincial Hospital and at the Pigmentary Retinosis Center in Santiago de Cuba with audiology characteristics, moderate neurosensorial hypoacusia, ophthalmologic affections, generalized fatigue, dysphagia, asymmetric bilateral palpebral ptosis with prevalence in the left side, affection of the oblique muscle and of the internal rectum muscle and absence of the gag reflex, besides delusion and hallucinations is presented. The clinical changes in this patient make the suspect of an association of the Usher`s syndrome, with miastenia gravis and a schizophrenia.

Palabras clave : USHER SÍNDROMES; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; DELIRIUM; HALLUCINATIONS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS.

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