HealthDay News — For patients with non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis, thymectomy plus prednisone confers benefits vs prednisone alone at 5 years, according to a study published online January 25 ...

Myasthenia gravis is associated with non-cancerous enlargement of the thymus gland, and sometimes, people with myasthenia gravis are found to have a cancerous tumor of the thymus.

The findings, from the 126-patient, randomized, controlled Thymectomy Trial in Non-Thymomatous Myasthenia Gravis Patients Receiving Prednisone Therapy (MGTX), were published online August 11 in ...

Wolfe GI, Kaminski HJ, Aban IB, et al. Long-term effect of thymectomy plus prednisone versus prednisone alone in patients with non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis: 2 -year extension of the MGTX ...

Wolfe et al. "Thymectomy in Non-thymomatous Myastenia Gravis: Results from MGTX," New England Journal of Medicine, August 10, 2016. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1602489 For more information, visit: ...

The Thymectomy Trial in Non-Thymomatous Myasthenia Gravis Patients Receiving Prednisone (MGTX) was a randomized, controlled study conducted on 126 patients aged 18-65 between 2006 and 2012.

“The only prospective randomized trial on this topic — the Thymectomy Trial in Non-Thymomatous Myasthenia Gravis Patients Receiving Prednisone (MGTX) published in 2016 — definitively ...

Reference Deboever N, Xu Y, Feldman HA, et al. Outcomes after thymectomy in non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis. J Thorac Dis. Published online May 8, 2023. doi:10.21037/jtd-22-1589 ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare autoantibody-mediated disease affecting the neuromuscular junction. Here, the authors discover common genetic variation associated with the disease, increasing ...

If you happen to be on medicine for myasthenia gravis, don't forget it. Any type of light aerobic exercise or anything that you're used to doing, feel free to do.

In this phase 3, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, we enrolled participants with myasthenia gravis who had anti–acetylcholine receptor antibodies or anti–muscle-specific ...