作者
Gil I Wolfe, Henry J Kaminski, Inmaculada B Aban, Greg Minisman, Hui-Chien Kuo, Alexander Marx, Philipp Ströbel, Claudio Mazia, Joel Oger, J Gabriel Cea, Jeannine M Heckmann, Amelia Evoli, Wilfred Nix, Emma Ciafaloni, Giovanni Antonini, Rawiphan Witoonpanich, John O King, Said R Beydoun, Colin H Chalk, Alexandru C Barboi, Anthony A Amato, Aziz I Shaibani, Bashar Katirji, Bryan RF Lecky, Camilla Buckley, Angela Vincent, Elza Dias-Tosta, Hiroaki Yoshikawa, Márcia Waddington-Cruz, Michael T Pulley, Michael H Rivner, Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk, Robert M Pascuzzi, Carlayne E Jackson, Jan JGM Verschuuren, Janice M Massey, John T Kissel, Lineu C Werneck, Michael Benatar, Richard J Barohn, Rup Tandan, Tahseen Mozaffar, Nicholas J Silvestri, Robin Conwit, Joshua R Sonett, Alfred Jaretzki, John Newsom-Davis, Gary R Cutter, Gary Cutter, Inmaculada Aban, Michelle Feese, Gil Wolfe, Henry Kaminski, Joshua Sonett, Valeria Saluto, Moises Rosenberg, Valeria Alvarez, Lisa Rey, John King, Helmut Butzkueven, John Goldblatt, John Carey, John Pollard, Stephen Reddel, Nicholas Handel, Brian McCaughan, Linda Pallot, Ricardo Novis, Carlos Boasquevisque, Rubens Morato-Fernandez, Manoel Ximenes, Lineu Werneck, Rosana Scola, Paulo Soltoski, Colin Chalk, Fraser Moore, David Mulder, Lisa Wadup, Michele Mezei, Kenneth Evans, Theresa Jiwa, Anne Schaffar, Chris White, Cory Toth, Gary Gelfand, Susan Wood, Elizabeth Pringle, Jocelyn Zwicker, Donna Maziak, Farid Shamji, Sudhir Sundaresan, Andrew Seely, Gabriel Cea, Renato Verduga, Alberto Aguayo, Sebastian Jander, Philipp Zickler, Michael Klein, Cleo-Aron Weis, Arthur Melms, Felix Bischof, Hermann Aebert, Gerhard Ziemer, Björn Thümler, Thomas Wilhem-Schwenkmezger, Eckhard Mayer, Berthold Schalke, Peter Pöschel, Gisela Hieber, Karsten Wiebe, Alessandro Clemenzi, Vanessa Ceschin, Erino Rendina, Federico Venuta, Stefania Morino, Elisabetta Bucci, Luca Durelli, Alessia Tavella, Marinella Clerico, Giulia Contessa, Piero Borasio, Serenella Servidei, Pierluigi Granone, Renato Mantegazza, Emilia Berta, Lorenzo Novellino, Luisa Spinelli, Masakatsu Motomura, Hidenori Matsuo, Takeshi Nagayasu, Masaharu Takamori, Makoto Oda, Isao Matsumoto, Yutaka Furukawa, Daisuke Noto, Yuko Motozaki, Kazuo Iwasa, Daisuke Yanase, Guillermo Garcia Ramos, Bernardo Cacho, Lorenzo de la Garza, Anne Kostera-Pruszczyk, Marta Lipowska, Hubert Kwiecinski, Anna Potulska-Chromik, Tadeusz Orlowski, Ana Silva, Marta Feijo, António Freitas, Jeannine Heckmann
发表日期
2019/3/1
期刊
The Lancet Neurology
卷号
18
期号
3
页码范围
259-268
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
The Thymectomy Trial in Non-Thymomatous Myasthenia Gravis Patients Receiving Prednisone (MGTX) showed that thymectomy combined with prednisone was superior to prednisone alone in improving clinical status as measured by the Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis (QMG) score in patients with generalised non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis at 3 years. We investigated the long-term effects of thymectomy up to 5 years on clinical status, medication requirements, and adverse events.
Methods
We did a rater-blinded 2-year extension study at 36 centres in 15 countries for all patients who completed the randomised controlled MGTX and were willing to participate. MGTX patients were aged 18 to 65 years at enrolment, had generalised non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis of less than 5 years' duration, had acetylcholine receptor antibody titres of 1·00 nmol/L or higher (or concentrations of 0·50–0·99 …
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