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When do you send AChR+ ocular myasthenia gravis patients for thymectomy?

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Neurology · Hospital for Special Surgery

Patients with ocular myasthenia gravis and thymoma should be referred for thymectomy.

The data regarding thymectomy in non-thymomatous ocular myasthenia is more limited; thymectomy can be considered in patients who cannot tolerate, or have refractory symptoms despite, immunosuppressive therapy when ...

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Neurology · The Brain and Eye Institute

I find it hard to justify a thymectomy in a case of ocular myasthenia without thymic hyperplasia.

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