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.
Perioperative Outcomes of Thymectomy in Myasthenia Gravis: A Thoracic Surgery Database Analysis
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.06.071
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Author(s): 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
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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).