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Surgical techniques for early-stage thymoma: Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy versus transsternal thymectomy [PDF]

, 2014
ObjectiveThe present study compared the outcomes between patients who had undergone video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) thymectomy and transsternal (TS) thymectomy for Masaoka stage I and II thymoma.MethodsThe outcomes of 262 patients without ...
Cheng, Ming, Feng, Jian, Ge, Xiao-Xiao, Li, Wang, Shi, Jian-Xing, Tantai, Ji-Cheng, Ye, Bo, Zhao, Heng   +7 more
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Myasthenia. Surgical treatment and its effectiveness

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2012
The article reviews the problems of diagnostics and. treatment of myasthenia. The authors consider that thymectomy in modern conditions is founded, expedient and. safe for the patients surgery at the treatment of different forms of myasthenia.
M. B. Skvortsov, A. I. Smolin
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Is chest tube drainage necessary after subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy?

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020
Background Subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy has been increasingly performed in recent years. This study aimed to assess the differences in outcomes between subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy with and without chest tube drainage.
Jiaduo Li, Guoyan Qi, Xiaohe Zhang, Xuguang Zheng   +3 more
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Case Series of Canine Myasthenia Gravis: A Classification Approach With Consideration of Seronegative Dogs

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 39, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Myasthenia gravis (MG) is categorized into several subgroups, including seronegative MG. Seronegative human patients are well documented, but seronegative dogs remain clinically uncharacterized and their prevalence unknown. Objectives This study aims to evaluate the clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome of canine ...
Rui Xavier Dos Santos, Jan Waelkens, Abbe H. Crawford, Sam Khan, Sara Sami, Sergio A. Gomes, Anouk Van Ham, Iris Van Soens, Ine Cornelis, Jake Canning, Joe Fenn, Patrick Waters, Sofie F. M. Bhatti, An E. Vanhaesebrouck   +13 more
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Thymectomy lowers the myasthenia gravis biomarker miR-150-5p

Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, 2018
Objective The aim of the study was to analyze the effect of thymectomy on the proposed disease-specific microRNA (miRNA) biomarkers miR-150-5p and miR-21-5p in patients from the prospective randomized trial of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis (MGTX trial)
Carl Johan Molin, L. Sabre, Cleo-Aron Weis, T. Punga, A. Punga   +4 more
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Indirect induction of radiation lymphomas in mice. Evidence for a novel, transmissible leukemogen. [PDF]

, 1987
The transmission of a lymphomagenic agent(s) from the bone marrow of irradiated mice to thymic target cells has been demonstrated by: (a) the induction of T cell lymphomas in nonirradiated thymic grafts implanted in irradiated, Thy-l-congenic mice, (b ...
Hansteen, GA, Lieberman, M, McCune, JM, Scott, ML, Weissman, IL, White, JH   +5 more
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Perioperative Outcomes and Long-term Survival in Clinically Early-stage Thymic 
Malignancies: Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Thymectomy versus Open Approaches

Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2016
Background and objective Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) theoretically offers advantages over open thymectomy for clinically early-stage (Masaoka-Koga stage I and II) thymic malignancies. However, longterm outcomes have not been well studied.
Hao WANG, Zhitao GU, Jianyong DING, Lijie TAN, Jianhua FU, Yi SHEN, Yucheng WEI, Peng ZHANG, Yongtao HAN, Chun CHEN, Renquan ZHANG, Yin LI, Ke-Neng CHEN, Hezhong CHEN, Yongyu LIU, Youbing CUI, Yun WANG, Liewen PANG, Zhentao YU, Xinming ZHOU, Yangchun LIU, Yuan LIU, Wentao FANG, Members of the Chinese Alliance for Research in Thymomas   +23 more
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Robot-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Thymectomy

Journal of Chest Surgery, 2021
Robotic thymectomy has been adopted recently and has been shown to be safe and feasible in treating thymic tumors and myasthenia gravis. The surgical indications of robotic technology are expanding, with advantages including an excellent surgical view ...
Samina Park
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Dual inhibition of TGFβ and PDGF improves RV remodeling and function in response to RV pressure or volume‐loading

Physiological Reports, Volume 13, Issue 9, May 2025.
Abstract Right ventricular (RV) pressure and volume loading induce RV fibrosis in association with RV dysfunction, morbidity, and mortality in repaired tetralogy of Fallot. Transforming‐growth factor‐β1 (TGFβ1) and platelet‐derived growth factor (PDGF) activate common downstream signaling pathways via TGFβ canonical and non‐canonical signaling to ...
John D. Dauz, Kana Yazaki, Yohei Akazawa, Theo A. Meister, Golam Kabir, Sachiko Kadowaki, Osami Honjo, Scott P. Heximer, Rachel M. Wald, Kim A. Connelly, Mark K. Friedberg   +10 more
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Myasthenia gravis patients with anti-MuSK antibodies [Miastenija gravis kod bolesnika s pozitivnim protutijelima na MuSK] [PDF]

, 2009
In myasthenia gravis (MG) patients without detectable anti-acetylcholine receptor (anti-AChR) antibody, referred to as seronegative myasthenia gravis patients, there is a variable proportion of patients with antibodies against the muscle specific kinase (
Bilić, Ervina, Trbojević Čepe, Milica, Vogrinc, Željka, Vranješ, Davorka, Šoštarko, Marija, Žagar, Marija   +5 more
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