Olugbenga T Okusanya, Nick Hess, Neil Christie, James D Luketich, Inderpal S Sarkaria
Myasthenia gravis can be a debilitating neurological disorder that affects thousands worldwide. Thymectomy has historically been considered in patients refractory to medical therapy or with concurrent thymoma. While retrospective data and propensity matched trials have favored thymectomy in order to decrease disease severity and disease associated morbidity, no randomized data existed to clearly delineate the benefit of this practice. The reviewed paper by Wolfe et al . represents the first high-level randomized prospective study investigating the role of thymectomy in patients with non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis...
December 2016: Annals of Translational Medicine