Clinical Study

Preoperative High-Dose Steroid Has Long-Term Beneficial Effects for Myasthenia Gravis

Figure 1

Postoperative respiratory failure and myasthenic crisis after thymectomy: postoperative respiratory failure and myasthenic crisis occurred only in a patient (0.9%) in preoperative steroid treatment group but did occur in 6 patients (10.3%) in no preoperative steroid treatment group during intraoperative period ( , χ 2-test).
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