Anesthesia for thymectomy
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Case Reports Anesthesia for Thymectomy in Myasthenia Gravis
Myasthenia Gravis (MG) in an autoimmune disease associated with acetylcholine receptor deficiency at the motor endplate. This deficiency is thought to be due to circulating acetylcholine antibodies that result in the deposition of immune complexes (IgG and complement) on the post synaptic membrane of the neuromuscular junction1. Osserman and Genkins, both physicians at Mount Sinai Hospital, pub...
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Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease with antibodies directed against the acetylcholine receptor at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Anesthetists have a special interest in myasthenia gravis because of its interaction with various anesthetic agents and because many myasthenics require a thymectomy to control their disease. Much has been written about the critical care management and...
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Patients with neuromuscular diseases, as Myasthenia Gravis, react abnormally to anesthetics, depending on the technique and on the drugs. This report aimed at showing a case of Myasthenia Gravis patient submitted to thymectomy under total intravenous anesthesia with propofol and remifentanil. CASE REPORT Female Myasthenia Gravis patient, 52 years old, 72 kg, submitte...
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عنوان ژورنال: Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1658-354X
DOI: 10.4103/1658-354x.76465