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SUBMITTER: Chen L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6745023 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Li L Xie Wenfeng W Zheng Donghua D Wang Siqi S Wang Ganping G Sun Jiaqi J Tai Qiang Q Chen Zhenguang Z
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 20190610 10
<h4>Objectives</h4>Patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) often benefit from thymectomy, but the optimal timing of extubation following thymectomy in these patients remains unknown. This study of MG patients compared the effect of early and late extubation following thymectomy on clinical outcome.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a study of data from 96 patients with MG who received thymectomy procedures, followed by early (< 6 h) or late (> 6 h) extubation, at our institution between October 2011 and ...[more]