Thymoma-associated autoimmune encephalitis with myasthenia gravis: Case series and literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This comprehensive review aimed to compile cases of patients with thymoma diagnosed with both autoimmune encephalitis (AE) and myasthenia gravis (MG), and describe their clinical characteristics.

Methods

Clinical records of 3 AE patients in the first affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen University were reviewed. All of them were diagnosed with AE between 1 November 2021 and 1 March 2022, and clinical evidence about thymoma and MG was found. All published case reports were searched for comprehensive literature from January 1990 to June 2022.

Results

A total of 18 cases diagnosed with thymoma-associated autoimmune encephalitis (TAAE) and thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis (TAMG) were included in this complication, wherein 3 cases were in the first affiliated

SUBMITTER: Su M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10850820 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature