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Comparison of Conservative Treatment and Thymectomy on Myasthenia Gravis Outcome

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.08.052

Author(s)

Emanuela Taioli, Philip Kent Paschal, Bian Liu, Andrew J Kaufman, Raja M. Flores

This systematic review of the literature evaluated reported outcomes of myasthenia gravis in patients with and without thymectomy. Among over 10,000 patients evenly divided between thymectomy and medication alone, the likelihood of remission was 31% vs 15%, OR 2.44.