Can myasthenia gravis of the eye be opened? What are the negative effects of opening
Myasthenia gravis of the eyes can be operated on, and it is usually simple to take the upper eyelid levator muscle shortening surgery to make the drooping eyelid lift up. This surgery has very little risk and few side effects. Another kind of surgical therapy is the removal of thymus or thymoma (this therapy is only suitable for patients with thymic hyperplasia or thymoma), this therapy is considered to be the main means of Western medicine for the treatment of myasthenia gravis, but not all of the patients who have had the surgery are effective, clinically, the patients who have had thymus surgery, there are 40% to 50% of the patients who have been able to improve their condition after the surgery, but the long-term effect of the treatment is not optimistic, from the clinical point of view, there are some patients with myasthenia gravis, and some of the patients have been treated with surgery, and some of them have been treated with surgery. A portion of patients with myasthenia gravis symptoms can be maintained for about 2 to 3 years without recurrence, and some patients will have myasthenia gravis again within a short period of time after surgery.