Take a deep breath but don't relax: Anesthesia for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis
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Thymectomy in Patients with Myasthenia Gravis
A case of myasthenia gravis in a 15 years old girl is pre·sented. The disease was present for 5 years before thymectomy was performed. Indications for thymectomy, preoperative preparation, anesthetic and surgical management is -discussed.
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A retrospective comparative study was performed on 54 patients treated medically or surgically (thymectomy) for myasthenia gravis (MG) from 1979- 1989 in three Shiraz University Hospitals. Each surgical patient was compared with a medical patient on the basis of age, sex, severity and duration of disease. Complete remission was noted in 3 out of 27 thymectomized patients but in none of the...
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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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Thymectomy was performed on 249 patients with myasthenia gravis between 1957 and 1981. During a follow-up period that ranged from 2 months to 24 years (mean 7.5 years), the remission rate for the entire group was 51 percent, and an additional 36 percent had improvement (87 percent benefited). In those 51 patients with thymoma, the remission rate was 37 percent, with 68 percent of the patients b...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.12.083