A thymectomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing the thymus gland. Surgeons perform a thymectomy to treat certain autoimmune diseases and cancers. The thymus is a small gland in the upper ...

A thymectomy is surgery to remove your thymus. The thymus is a small gland that sits in front of your heart and produces immune cells. The thymus helps develop the immune system in babies and young ...

The tool can help clinicians stratify patients into high-risk and low-risk categories. A team of investigators has developed a nomogram they say can help predict which patients with myasthenia gravis ...

Minimally invasive thymectomy for ocular myasthenia gravis (MG) enhanced complete stable remission rates and reduced surgical risks. Minimally invasive treatment and earlier surgical consideration for ...

Thymectomy carried a substantially increased risk of all-cause mortality and cancer for adults, a "landmark" study showed. Adults who had undergone thymectomy had at least double the risk of all-cause ...

Thymectomy has been a mainstay in the treatment of myasthenia gravis, but there is no conclusive evidence of its benefit. We conducted a multicenter, randomized trial comparing thymectomy plus ...

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.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 ...

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 ...

The Greeks believed your thymus was home to your soul. In fact, thymus means “soul” in Greek. While no studies have proved that to be the case, your thymus does play an important role in your immune ...

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 ...