Thymectomy in myasthenia gravis: the Jamaican experience
West Indian med. j
; 41(2): 64-7, June 1992.
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em Inglês
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| ID: med-9636
Biblioteca responsável:
JM3.1
Localização: JM3.1; R18.W4
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 percent of the patients benefited from surgery with 28.8 percent achieving remission. Forty patients (88.5 percent) showed improvement within one month, and 73 percent 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 (AU)
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Bases de dados internacionais
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Timectomia
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Miastenia Gravis
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
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Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Adolescente
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Adulto
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Idoso
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Criança
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe Inglês
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Jamaica
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
West Indian med. j
Ano de publicação:
1992
Tipo de documento:
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