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Is Thymectomy for Nonthymomatous Myasthenia Gravis Now the Standard of Care? [1]

Submitted by joeldunning [2] on Tue, 2017-08-22 16:46

This is an expert summary of the evidence for thymectomy in nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis, titled Thymectomy and myasthenia gravis: A history of surgical passion and scientific excellence.

It really suggests that this operation is the standard of care for these patients if they are ACh-positive and young and MGFA II or above.

Source name: 
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Resource link: 
http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223(17)30665-7/fulltext [3]
Taxonomy: 
Mediastinum - Thymus [4]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Thoracic [5]
Author(s): 
Joshua R. Sonett, Mitchell J. Magee,and Lyall Gorenstein,
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Mediastinum [6]
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/thymectomy-nonthymomatous-myasthenia-gravis-now-standard-care

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[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/thymectomy-nonthymomatous-myasthenia-gravis-now-standard-care [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/joeldunning [3] http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223(17)30665-7/fulltext [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy/mediastinum-thymus [5] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/thoracic [6] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/mediastinum