[Pubmed] Survival and autoimmune risks post-thymectomy
Posté : 04 avr. 2025 12:00
Front Immunol. 2025 Mar 13;16:1504496. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1504496. eCollection 2025.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Recent studies have raised concerns about thymectomy's deleterious effects. However, this conclusion was not exclusive to patients with myasthenia gravis (MG). The objective of this study was to test this hypothesis in thymectomy patients, regardless of their MG status.
METHODS: We conducted a retrospective case-control study to analyze clinical and radiological data from 1 January 2010 to 30 November 2023. Patients were divided into four groups: MG with (MG-Thy) or without thymectomy (MG-NO-Thy); thoracoscopic surgery without thymectomy (Surgery-NO-Thy) and Non-MG with thymectomy (Non-MG-Thy).
RESULTS: We identified a total of 456 patients (n=41, MG-Thy; n= 278, MG-NO-Thy; n=65, Non-MG-Thy; and n=72, Surgery-NO-Thy). The median ages were as follows: MG-Thy, 45.6 years (range: 22-79); MG-NO-Thy, 65 years (13-93); Non-MG-Thy, 59.8 (19-85) years; and Surgery-NO-Thy, 59.8 years (range: 19-85) (p
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4018195 ... t9+e462414