Prof. Shcherbakova Natalia
Title: Myasthenia Gravis in Pregnancy: risk factors for exacerbations and transient neonatal myasthenia
Biography
Shcherbakova
Natalia graduated from the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
(Sechenov University) in 1992 and has been studying neuromuscular pathology
since 1993. The priority area of ??research by Shcherbakova Natalia is the
study of myasthenic crises, seronegative myasthenia gravis (MG), refractory forms of MG
and Lambert-Eaton
myasthenic syndrome (LEMS). She is the author of a technique for studying
neuromuscular transmission in the diaphragmatic muscle, she has developed
electromyographic criteria for predicting various types of myasthenic crises.
In 2004, she first described Congenital myasthenic syndrome associated with a
homozygous point mutation in the promoter region of the ?-subunit of the
acetylcholine receptor. She
has completed her MD in the year 2008 at the age of 39 years. She is the senior
researcher of Scientific Advisory Department of the Research Center of
Neurology (Moscow, Russia) since 2010. She has published more than 90 papers in
reputed journals.
Research Interest
Neuromuscular pathology, myasthenic crises, seronegative myasthenia
gravis (MG), refractory forms of MG and Lambert-Eaton
myasthenic syndrome (LEMS).
