Minimally invasive treatment and earlier surgical consideration for thymectomy led the way as potential treatments for ...

Thymectomy is a type of surgery for myasthenia gravis (MG). It involves removing the thymus gland. Modern thymectomy techniques are minimally invasive and can have long-term benefits for symptoms.

However, few patients with nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis (NTMG) undergo this procedure, results suggest. Individuals with nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis (NTMG) who underwent thymectomy had less ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Surgery to remove the thymus gland in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG), a rare autoimmune disease affecting neuromuscular function, provides significant clinical benefits for as ...

.BUFFALO, N.Y. — The first-ever randomized study of the removal of the thymus gland in treating myasthenia gravis was conducted in 2016. Led by Gil I. Wolfe, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . demonstrated superiority of thymectomy and prednisone compared to prednisone alone at 3 and 5 years post-surgery ...

The first global randomized controlled trial of patients with major myasthenia gravis without a thymus tumor (thymoma) has shown that thymectomy surgery plus immunosuppression with alternate-day ...

BOSTON -- Thymectomy combined with prednisone therapy in patients with nonthymomatous (no thymus tumor) myasthenia gravis (MG) resulted in better three-year patient outcomes than steroid therapy alone ...

Doctors may recommend oral medications such as pyridostigmine and various intravenous (IV) drugs for the treatment of myasthenia gravis. Thymectomy surgery and plasma exchange may also help. The aim ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with myasthenia gravis — particularly those post-thymectomy — demonstrate an increased odds for having ...

A Joint research team (Prof. Jun-hee Lee, Hyun-koo Kim, Jin-Wook Hwang, Jae-Ho Chung, the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine) Announced the world's ...