Thymectomy in myasthenia gravis. The Jamaican experience
West Indian med. j
;
41(2): 64-7, June 1992.
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in English
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| ID: lil-107518
ABSTRACT
Forty-five patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) were subjected to thymectomy by the median sternotomy technique and were followed up for 4,380 patient months. No operative deaths occurred and 93.3%of the patients benefited from surgery with 28.8%achieving remission. Forty pptients (88.5%) showed improvement within one month, and 73%of those who achieved remission did so in the first 2 years. Outcome was not affected by thymic pathology except in one patient who had a thymoma removed. These results confirm the value of thymectomy in the management of MG patients with generalised disease and the efficacy of the simple median sternotomy procedure.
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Main subject:
Thymectomy
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Myasthenia Gravis
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Country/Region as subject:
English Caribbean
/
Jamaica
Language:
English
Journal:
West Indian med. j
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
1992
Type:
Article
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