[Pubmed] Humanistic burden and medical care patterns of real-world patients with myasthenia gravis in Japan

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Front Neurol. 2025 Dec 11;16:1673297. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1673297. eCollection 2025.

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by skeletal muscle weakness. As limited real-world data are available in Japan, we aimed to describe the humanistic burden of disease (primary aim), mainly with regards to health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and treatment patterns (secondary aim) in patients with generalized MG (gMG).

METHODS: Data were drawn from the Adelphi Real World MG Disease Specific Programme™, a cross-sectional survey of neurologists and their patients in Japan from August 2023 and January 2024. Analyses were descriptive.

RESULTS: Overall, 40 neurologists reported data for 128 patients, where 29 patients had self-reported data. Mean (standard deviation) patient age was 57.9 (16.0) years and 53.9% were female. At data collection, 98.4% of patients were receiving maintenance therapy (including novel treatments). Nonsteroidal immunosuppressant therapies were used at first-line of therapy in 54.5% of cases (n = 67/123). Oral systemic steroids were most used [78.0% of patients at first-line (n = 96/123), 77.9% at second-line (n = 53/68), and 75.0% at third-line (n = 15/20)]. The median (IQR) duration from symptom onset to diagnosis was 2.0 (0.9-4.3) months. Of 28 patients with EQ-5D-5L data, 46.4% reported difficulties with usual activities, 42.9% with mobility, 21.4% with self-care, 53.6% with pain/discomfort, and 39.3% with anxiety/depression.

CONCLUSION: Most patients in this Japanese cohort with gMG received maintenance therapy and the time from symptom onset to diagnosis was relatively short. However, impaired HRQoL remained.

PMID:41458125 | PMC:PMC12742322 | DOI:10.3389/fneur.2025.1673297


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