Perioperative Outcomes of Thymectomy in Myasthenia Gravis: A Thoracic Surgery Database Analysis

Thursday, March 17, 2022

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Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.06.071

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Shruti M. Raja, MD, MHS Jeffrey T. Guptill, MD, MHS Alec McConnell, MS Hussein R. Al-Khalidi, PhD Matthew G. Hartwig, MD Jacob A. Klapper, MD

There is clinical equipoise surrounding the perioperative and long-term effects of autoimmune myasthenia gravis (MG) patients undergoing open versus minimally invasive thymectomy, particularly for nonthymomatous MG. This analysis utilizes multicenter, real-world clinical evidence to assess perioperative complications of open and minimally invasive thymectomy techniques in MG patients.

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Submitted by Ghassan Musleh on Sat, 2022-03-19 01:10

The most important issue is to know the impact of the operative procedure on the long term outcome in both groups the thymomatous ( tumour recurrece or survival) and non thymomatous cases ( neurological out come).