In some cases, the process seems to be related to the thymus gland, which helps produce antibodies. About 15% of all myasthenia gravis patients are found to have a thymoma, a tumor of the thymus.

Eculizumab effectively reduced MG-ADL scores and corticosteroid use in thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis patients by week 12. The monoclonal antibody targets complement protein C5, preventing ...

Although the nature of the physiologic action of the thymus is not fully understood ... relation existing between this structure and myasthenia gravis. Castleman has shown that nearly 80 per ...

Careful search of the literature has failed to reveal a similar case of myasthenia gravis associated with a mediastinal thymoma and a separate, discrete, secondary tumor nodule in the lung.

Myasthenia gravis (MG) should be classified according to antibody status (acetylcholine, MuSK, LRP4, titin), thymus (hyperplasia, neoplasia, atrophy), age at debut (< or >50 years), symptom ...

T he first-ever randomized study of the removal of the thymus gland in treating myasthenia gravis was conducted in 2016. Led by Gil I. Wolfe, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Irvin and ...

.BUFFALO, N.Y. — The first-ever randomized study of the removal of the thymus gland in treating myasthenia gravis was conducted in 2016. Led by Gil I. Wolfe, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the ...

Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is "a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular ... In some cases, abnormalities in a small organ called the thymus gland "also appear to play a role in triggering or exacerbating ...

Genes likely play a role. And some folks with myasthenia gravis have an enlarged thymus, which researchers think may tell the body to make strength-sapping antibodies. Most people who get ...

The exact cause of myasthenia gravis needs to be better understood. However, research shows that about 75% of people with MG have an abnormally large and overactive thymus gland (an organ that ...