In fact, thymectomy seems to improve symptoms of myasthenia gravis in some patients, even if no tumor is present. Your treatment will depend on your age, how severe your symptoms are, and how fast ...

How Is Myasthenia Gravis Diagnosed? During a physical exam ... you will need surgery to remove your thymus (thymectomy). In fact, your doctor may recommend that you undergo this surgery even ...

Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is "a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue," says Hesterlee. It occurs "when a person’s immune system is essentially ...

Description and demographics. Muscle & Nerve. 2020;63(2):209-216. 10. Myasthenia gravis fact sheet. (2020, April 27). National institutes of neurological disorders and stroke. Available at https ...

Bringing this interview with Marla Black Morgan, MD, to a close, she looks to the future of research in both myasthenia ...

MYASTHENIA gravis has frequently been described as a clinical entity. It is a disease characterized by abnormal skeletal-muscle fatigability. The cause is unknown. The myoneural junction seems to ...