Short-term and sustained clinical response following thymectomy in patients with myasthenia gravis.
Jakob RathManuela TaborskyBernhard MoserGudrun ZulehnerRosa WengMartin KrennHakan CetinJosé Ramon MatillaLeonhard MüllauerFritz ZimprichPublished in: European journal of neurology (2022)
Sustained long-term clinical response of MG patients after thymectomy is significantly lower than the initial response rates would suggest. The observation that none of the evaluated clinical factors was associated with a worse outcome supports the current clinical practice of patient selection for thymectomy. The relative decline of AChR-Abs after surgery appears to be a promising prognostic marker.