Effect of pregnancy and birth on the course of myasthenia gravis before or after transsternal radical thymectomy.

Objective: Myasthenia gravis (MG) affects women at childbearing age. Therefore, the question arises if these patients should become pregnant and if thymectomy has a positive effect on the course of MG in pregnant patients.

Methods: Fifteen pregnancies had been followed retrospectively.

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery of mediastinal bronchogenic cysts in adults: a single-center experience.

Background: Mediastinal bronchogenic cysts are rarely diagnosed in adults, hence surgical experience is limited particularly with regard to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. In support of the thoracoscopic approach we report our single-center experience in this rare entity.

Methods: Between June 1995 and December 2002, a nonselected series of 12 consecutive patients presenting with mediastinal bronchogenic cysts underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.