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The dilemma of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis

Apollo Medicine, 2020
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease that affects the neuromuscular junction causing fluctuating weakness of skeletal muscles. It is considered a rare disease with an estimated prevalence of 7.77/100,000.
Pushpendra Nath Renjen, Dinesh Mohan Chaudhari, Anjali Mishra   +2 more
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Thymectomy with or without maintenance therapy for myasthenia gravis patients: a tri-center, real-world study. [PDF]

Ther Adv Neurol Disord
Background: The necessity and optimal duration of post-thymectomy immunoregulatory medication (IM) in myasthenia gravis (MG) remain unclear. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate whether IM is required after thymectomy in MG patients and to determine ...
Zhang H, Fan M, Shi Y, Huang X, Cui Y, Yu Z, Yang CS, Li HN, Zhang XH, Liu P, Wu T, Shi FD, Qi GY.   +12 more
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Clinical characteristics of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients developing other autoimmune diseases after thymectomy from one single center cohort

Thoracic Cancer, 2023
Background Myasthenia gravis (MG) patients are reported to have a high risk of other autoimmune diseases (ADs), and thymectomy may increase the risk further.
Wenxin Tian, Jing He, Hanbo Yu, Yaoguang Sun, Qingjun Wu, Peng Jiao, Chao Ma, Chuan Huang, Donghang Li, Hongfeng Tong   +9 more
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Medically resistant juvenile myasthenia gravis following thymectomy: Role for FDG PET/CT

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2020
Thymectomy is part of a multimodal treatment strategy for juvenile myasthenia gravis. Symptoms that persist following thymectomy may be due to residual or ectopic thymic tissue.
Florence Ngu, Michael Cardamone, Dylan Wanaguru, Bruce Currie, Eva Alina Wegner, Ian Andrews, Walter Haindl   +6 more
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Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Thymectomy: Transpleural Approach

Journal of Chest Surgery, 2021
There are several types of minimally invasive approaches for thymectomy, of which the transpleural approach by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is particularly useful.
In Kyu Park
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Effect Evaluation of Subxiphoid and Intercostal Thymectomy: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

Frontiers in Surgery, 2022
BackgroundIt still remains unclear whether subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (SVATS) thymectomy is safe and reasonable. This meta-analysis aims at assessing the effectiveness and safety of SVATS for thymoma in comparison with that of ...
Hailong Wang, Miao Wang, Ning Xin, Rongqiang Wei, Kenan Huang, Kenan Huang   +5 more
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Margin-negative resection and long-term survival following robot-assisted thymectomy for thymoma: A tumor size stratified analysis. [PDF]

JTCVS Open
Objective: Although open thymectomy has traditionally been the gold standard for resection of large thymic tumors, growing evidence has suggested minimally invasive thymectomy to confer comparable survival. However, the influence of incremental increases
Sakowitz S, Bakhtiyar SS, Sanaiha Y, Mallick S, Benharash P, Yanagawa J.   +5 more
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Thymoma‐associated myasthenia gravis: Clinical features and predictive value of antiacetylcholine receptor antibodies in the risk of recurrence of thymoma

Thoracic Cancer, 2021
Background Thymoma‐associated myasthenia gravis (TAMG) is one of the subtypes of myasthenia gravis with autoantibodies against the acetylcholine receptor (AChR‐Ab).
Anna De Rosa, Marco Fornili, Michelangelo Maestri Tassoni, Melania Guida, Laura Baglietto, Loredana Petrucci, Antonio Chella, Franca Melfi, Marco Lucchi, Roberta Ricciardi   +9 more
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Effects of thymectomy on late-onset non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis: systematic review and meta-analysis

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2021
Background The effects of thymectomy on late-onset non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis (NTMG) remain controversial. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review in order to answer two questions pertinent to late-onset NTMG: (1) do ...
Jinwei Zhang, Yuan Chen, Hui Zhang, Zhaoyu Yang, Peng Zhang   +4 more
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Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: Video-assisted versus transsternal

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2014
Thymectomy may benefit patients with generalized myasthenia gravis (MG) or myasthenia with thymomas. Currently, video-assisted (VA) thoracic surgery is popular and plays an important role in thymectomy.
Chien-Ming Lo, Hung-I. Lu, Ming-Jang Hsieh, Shao-Shuan Lee, Jen-Ping Chang   +4 more
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