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HLA type is not indicative for the effect of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis
J B Kuks1, S P Lems, H J Oosterhuis
1Department of Neurology, University Hospital Groningen, Netherlands.
Journal of Neuroimmunology
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
The frequency of HLA types in a selected group of 40 patients with myasthenia gravis in relation to the effect of thymectomy and also to gender, and thymus histology was studied. As generally described we found a significant increase in the frequency of HLA-A1, HLA-B8, HLA-DR3 and HLA-DQ2 in the total group. There were no further differences between subgroups of patients, which demonstrates that HLA type is not indicative for the effect of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis.