In 2024, the field of myasthenia gravis (MG) saw many developments from clinical trials of new treatments, including ...

If you have myasthenia gravis, you might need to have surgery. One type of surgery, thymectomy (removal of the thymus), is a treatment to prevent symptoms. Other surgical procedures can treat ...

Doctors may recommend oral medications such as pyridostigmine and various intravenous (IV) drugs for the treatment of myasthenia gravis. Thymectomy surgery and plasma exchange may also help.

But one of the rarest muscular disorders is also one of the most concerning. It's called myasthenia gravis and affects only about 37 out of every 100,000 people in the United States.

Finding similar frequencies of positive acetylcholine receptor antibodies in patients with ocular and generalized myasthenia ...

We have some surgeries. The surgery that is used in the treatment of myasthenia gravis is a thymectomy or removal of the thymus gland. The thymus gland is a gland that's involved in our autoimmune ...

Varanasi: A team of doctors at the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), BHU successfully performed ‘thymectomy' on a patient suffering from Myasthenia Gravis ... The surgery, which is difficult ...

The thymectomy will also facilitate the control of the symptoms of myasthenia gravis by requiring a smaller amount of medications than prior to surgery. The benefits for the symptoms of myasthenia ...