Thoracoscopic thymectomy may offer quicker recovery and reduced disease severity compared to transsternal thymectomy in myasthenia gravis patients. Left VATS was associated with less severe disease ...

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A Joint research team (Prof. Jun-hee Lee, Hyun-koo Kim, Jin-Wook Hwang, Jae-Ho Chung, the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine) Announced the world's ...

For several decades, thymectomy has been an option for the treatment of myasthenia gravis, a rare, long-term, autoimmune neuromuscular disease. This randomized clinical trial, carried out in 67 ...

The training did not, however, affect postoperative limb skeletal muscle weakness or exercise capacity. Preoperative respiratory muscle training (RMT) and aerobic exercise appear to lead to ...

.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 ...

Background and aims: Surgical correction of congenital heart defects at neonatal age frequently involves total thymectomy. Initial reports suggest that neonatal thymectomy could have serious ...

This is a report of data obtained from children, beyond the neonatal stage, undergoing major corrective heart surgery, in which the thymus is frequently dissected and partially removed for aortic-arch ...

The thymus is an 'H'-shaped organ behind the breastbone that plays an important role in the development of the immune system in childhood, but what function does it play in the adult body? I'm not ...