The influence of myasthenia gravis on the prognosis of thymoma patients / 中华胸心血管外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective The influence of myasthenia gravias(MG) upon the long term survival of thoma patients varied in the retrospective studies as reported,including the positive,negative impact and irrelevant influence.The recent study from the Chinese Alliance for Research on Thynic Diseses(ChART) indicated that in different stages of thymoma,MG influenced the prognosis in different ways.It's the author's conclusion that the complicated influences of MG on the prognosis of thymoma include a direct one which is negative resulting from MG related complications and an indirect positive one due to its beneficial pathologic and staging patterns.Inprovement of the prognosis for patients with thymoma complicating MG will be expected with advancement in MG therapeutics.