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Why does a client with myasthenia gravis receive immunosuppressive therapy?

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Answered Nov 16, 2017

Decreases the production of autoantibodies that attack the acetylcholine receptors.

Steroids decrease the bodys immune response thus decreasing the production of antibodies that attack the acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction
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