Thymectomy
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1. Total parathyroidectomy in a large cohort of cases with hyperparathyroidism associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1: experience from a single academic center
Most cases of sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism present disturbances in a single parathyroid gland and the surgery of choice is adenomectomy. Conversely, hyperparathyroidism associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (hyperparathyroidism/multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1) is an asynchronic, asymmetrical multiglandular disease and it is surgical
Clinics. Publicado em: 2012
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2. Surgical approach in patients with hyperparathyroidism in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1: total versus partial parathyroidectomy
Usually, primary hyperparathyroidism is the first endocrinopathy to be diagnosed in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1, and is also the most common one. The timing of the surgery and strategy in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1/hyperparathyroidism are still under debate. The aims of surgery are to: 1) correct hypercalcemia, thus preventing
Clinics. Publicado em: 2012
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3. A sigmoidal fit for pressure-volume curves of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients on mechanical ventilation: clinical implications
OBJECTIVE: Respiratory pressure-volume curves fitted to exponential equations have been used to assess disease severity and prognosis in spontaneously breathing patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Sigmoidal equations have been used to fit pressure-volume curves for mechanically ventilated patients but not for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients.
Clinics. Publicado em: 2011
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4. Influência da terapêutica sobre a qualidade de vida do paciente com miastenia gravis / The influence of therapeutics on the quality of life of Myasthenia gravis patients
INTRODUCTION: Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an immune mediated disease with production of antibodies against post-synaptic acetylcholine receptor of neuromuscular junctions (AAChR,Musk) and orders in nervous impulse transmission. The disease´s clinical characteristics include fatigability and fluctuating weakness of voluntary muscles. Acetylcholinesterase inhib
Publicado em: 2006
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5. Actuarial analysis of the occurrence of remissions following thymectomy for myasthenia gravis in 400 patients.
The role of thymectomy in the treatment of myasthenia gravis (MG) was analysed in 400 patients affected with generalised MG operated on between 1974-83, and prospectively followed up for five years after surgery. The occurrence of stable remission (SR) (that is, complete clinical drug-free remission that remains stable for all the subsequent follow up) was t
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6. Comparison of thymic histology with response to thymectomy in myasthenia gravis
Fifty-four thymus glands removed surgically from patients with myasthenia gravis were examined using an accurate morphometric technique and the data compared with the response to thymectomy. There is a tendency for patients with relatively unreactive thymus glands to obtain a better result from thymectomy but this is not statistically significant.
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7. Uptake and Killing of Mima polymorpha and Herellea vaginicola by the Reticuloendothelial System of Neonatally Thymectomized Nonwasted Mice
Phagocytosis and killing of Mima polymorpha and Herellea vaginicola by the liver, lungs, spleen, and kidneys from neonatally thymectomized nonwasted mice and their sham-thymectomized litter mates were compared. The removal of M. polymorpha from blood by these organs, measured 2 and 4 hr after intravenous injection of bacteria, was not affected by thymectomy.
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8. Myasthenic decrement and myasthenic myopathy. A study on the effects of thymectomy.
Motor unit action potentials, M responses to repetitive nerve stimulation, and anticholinesterase tests were investigated in 12 myasthenic patients before and after thymectomy. In six of them the endarterial acetylcholine test was also carried out. Responsiveness to ACTH or to prednisone treatment was evaluated before and after thymectomy. The typical myasth
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9. Thymectomy and azathioprine have no effect on the phenotype of CD4 T lymphocyte subsets in myasthenia gravis.
The influence of thymectomy and long term immunosuppression on the phenotype of CD4 T lymphocyte subsets, which were defined by the restricted expression of CD45RA and CD45RO markers, was studied by double immunofluorescence in 29 patients in different clinical stages of generalised myasthenia gravis. In the acute stage of myasthenia, before thymectomy and i
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10. Long-term outcome and quality of life after thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.
OBJECTIVE: The authors identify criteria suitable to predict long-term clinical improvement and evaluate quality of life after thymectomy for myasthenia. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis with long-term follow-up (mean 92 months) was conducted for 86 patients and questionnaire interviews were performed for 65 patients who underwent thymectomy between 1976 and 1
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11. Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: 14-year experience.
Forty-eight consecutive patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) attended by generalized weakness were treated by complete thymectomy, performed transsternally in 46 patients and through a left thoracotomy in two with thymomas. There were no operative deaths. A 12-year-old child with fulminating MG died of acute pneumonia shortly after hospital discharge. Of the
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12. Surgical treatment for myasthenia gravis.
A new surgical technique for thymectomy is presented. Three hundred and seventeen patients with myasthenia gravis and 20 with thymomas who had myasthenic symptoms were operated on. The new surgical approach--a small transverse sternotomy--was used in 257 cases (in 240 patients with myasthenia gravis and 17 with thymomas) and conventional median sternotomy in