While surgical removal of the thymus gland is considered the gold standard treatment for Myasthenia Gravis, nearly one-third of patients experience a frustrating recurrence of their autoimmune symptoms. Our expert explains why symptoms return even after complete surgical removal and challenges long-held medical assumptions about the root cause of MG.
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- Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery, executive director, Canning Thoracic Institute of Northwestern Medicine
- Marissa Humayun, patient
Marissa Humayun’s first infusion was around Thanksgiving, so she decided to play it safe and stay home. However, she quickly realized that letting Myasthenia Gravis run her life wasn’t going to be an option.
Now that researchers finally have an accurate picture of what’s driving the condition, Dr. Ankit Bharat’s excited to find more precise treatment methods that attack these rogue b-cells.
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