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Old 11-09-2009, 04:38 AM #1
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Default difference between tensilontest and prostigminetest

What's the difference between both? I read the doctor can diagnose mg with a tensilontest. Is it the same as a prostigminetest?
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What's the difference between both? I read the doctor can diagnose mg with a tensilontest. Is it the same as a prostigminetest?
basically, yes, as is a response to mestinon. they all show the same thing that what ever your illness is, it responds to a medication (injected or oral), that inhibits the activity of the enzyme acetyl-choline esterase.

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thanks Alice.

I read that they can make a diagnose with a tensilontest? So they can do it with the prostigmintest also? Because I had the prostigmintest.
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Alice,

So you can't say I can make I diagnose with a tensilontest buth not with the other one?
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