Experience of thymectomy by median sternotomy in patients with myasthenia gravis.

Objective: To determine the outcome of thymectomy in patients with myasthenia gravis and safety of median sternotomy approach.

Methodology: An observational descriptive study was conducted in the department of thoracic surgery JPMC from February 2005 to January 2009. Twenty-two patients having persistent generalized or ocular myasthenia gravis referred to our department by neurologists and general physicians, partially or not responding to medical treatment with or without thymoma, were included in the study.