Five-year results from the extended randomized MGTX trial demonstrated that the addition of thymectomy to prednisone leads to long-lasting lower quantitative myasthenia gravis (QMG) scores and ...

This study aimed to evaluate if clinical outcomes of MG after thymoma resection were associated with the presence of ectopic ...

BOSTON -- Thymectomy combined with prednisone therapy in patients with nonthymomatous (no thymus tumor) myasthenia gravis (MG) resulted in better three-year patient outcomes than steroid therapy alone ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . demonstrated superiority of thymectomy and prednisone compared to prednisone alone at 3 and 5 years post-surgery ...

The first-ever randomized study of the removal of the thymus gland in treating myasthenia gravis was conducted in 2016. Led by Gil I. Wolfe, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Irvin and Rosemary ...

The first global randomized controlled trial of patients with major myasthenia gravis without a thymus tumor (thymoma) has shown that thymectomy surgery plus immunosuppression with alternate-day ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with myasthenia gravis — particularly those post-thymectomy — demonstrate an increased odds for having ...

.BUFFALO, N.Y. — The first-ever randomized study of the removal of the thymus gland in treating myasthenia gravis was conducted in 2016. Led by Gil I. Wolfe, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the ...

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine addresses a question doctors have sought to clarify for decades: whether a surgery conducted since the 1940s benefits the patients it targets. The ...

Decisions about thymectomy in myasthenia gravis (MG) depend on several variables. Two important categories are whether the patient's thymus gland has thymoma or not and what type of autoantibodies, if ...

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