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I sincerely believe that unless a rich celebrity comes down with MG we're not going to see much for new cures / management in our lifetimes.
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Well, we can always hope for that... (just joking).
I am more optimistic than you, not because I think there is going to be much research in MG specifically (you are probably correct about that), but because I think there is a rapidly growing understanding of the immune system and some research into energy metabolism because of other diseases.
I am not sure what is "most", but at least according to the medical literature the overall sustained complete remission rate (which is probably not true remission in many who still suffer from "unexplained" fatigue) is 20-80% (this large range is because there is a very big heterogeneity in the way remission is defined and there is no standardization of the studies).
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The facts are for most of us, a thymectomy leads to remission.
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I do not think there is such an agreement. If that was so, why would they be doing a study comparing patients with and without thymectomy?
Like many other notions regarding the diagnosis and management of MG, this was never tested in an acceptable way.
The fact is that there is very little true "evidence based" medicine in MG, and most is based on unproven notions that may be right or wrong.