[Various aspects of intensive therapy in myasthenia gravis]

Clinical experience acquired in the intensive treatment of 168 myasthenic patients after thymectomy, for respiratory insufficiency due to myasthenic or cholinergic crisis, after hormone treatment, or immediately after various forms of surgery is described. Particular attention is devoted to problems faced in respiratory care, anticholinesterasic and metabolic treatment, and in the prevention and treatment of infections.