[Surgical interventions in concurrent and concomitant diseases in patients with myasthenia gravis]

The authors analyse the recent 15 years' results of treatment of 51 patients with generalized myasthenia who underwent operation in the clinic for various surgical diseases. Forty-three of them had a history of operation on the thymus. The specific features of preoperative management, anesthesia, and postoperative treatment in this serious category of patients are discussed. It is concluded that it is expedient to hospitalize these patients in special surgical hospitals possessing experience in the treatment of patients with generalized myasthenia and the possibility of conducting long-term ventilation of the lungs and other measures of resuscitation.