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The impact of HLA on long-term outcome after thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Aug 1998
Machens A, Löliger C, Pichlmeier U, Emskötter T, Busch C, Izbicki J R
Abstract excerpt
In a retrospective series of 86 patients with myasthenia gravis, the only factors predictive of improvement in muscular strength after transsternal thymectomy were preoperative severity of myasthenia (90% versus 54%, p = 0.0014) and HLA-B8 (79% versus 50%, p = 0.0060) in bivariable and multivariable analyses. Both factors were not interrelated (p = 0.824). The statistical effect of HLA-B8 was independent from...
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