caa a22 4500 397495781 CHVBK 20180308164520.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199508 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80083-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80083-1 Maximal thymectomy for myasthenia gravis [Elektronische Daten] Maximal thymectomy was carried out in 48 patients with myasthenia gravis(MG). There were 18 males and 30 females. Thymic hyperplasia was found in38, and atrophic thymus in 8, patients. Two patients had thymoma. In thenon-thymomatous myasthenia gravis complete remission was achieved in 16patients (34.8%) and pharmacological remission in 20 patients (43.5%) thusgiving a total remission in 36 (78.3%) patients. Six patients (13%)improved. There was no improvement in four patients. Thus, the overallbenefit from thymectomy was 91.4% in this series. We found that sex, age atonset of disease and steroid therapy influenced the outcome of thymectomy.On the other hand, duration of disease, anti- acetylcholine receptor(AntiAchR) antibodies and thymic histology did not have any bearing on thecomplete remission rate. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Elsevier Science B.V. 9/8(1995-08), 461-464 1010-7940 9:8<461 1995 9 ejcts https://doi.org/10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80083-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 abstract jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80083-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Elsevier Science B.V 9/8(1995-08), 461-464 1010-7940 9:8<461 1995 9 ejcts Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford