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Suggest Treatment For Myasthenia Gravis And Pneumonia

I am looking for information about myasthenia gravis and pneumonia. My mother had a tymectomy with thymoma, she was find for 3 weeks and then she started having respiratory problems, pleural effusion, and is on a ventilator today. I was looking for information
Mon, 24 Nov 2014
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Hi,
Welcome to HCM,
Coming back to your query, regarding her present condition things you have mention is not sufficient to come any conclusion and guide in the following case. Now with information if we try to look you have mention regarding Myasthenia Gravis(MG), Thymoma, Pneumonia and Pleural effusion and patient on ventilator now. so it seems she had developed MG due to thymoma which is treated and now she developed Pneumonia and Pleural effusion and now she is on ventilator so its basically Health care associated Pneumonia for which it would be worth while to collect secretion from oral tube and send it for Culture to look for cause of pneumonia and treat the same and also continue symptomatic treatment if required for maintaining Blood pressure and Heart rate and Urine output for now.
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Suggest Treatment For Myasthenia Gravis And Pneumonia

Hi, Welcome to HCM, Coming back to your query, regarding her present condition things you have mention is not sufficient to come any conclusion and guide in the following case. Now with information if we try to look you have mention regarding Myasthenia Gravis(MG), Thymoma, Pneumonia and Pleural effusion and patient on ventilator now. so it seems she had developed MG due to thymoma which is treated and now she developed Pneumonia and Pleural effusion and now she is on ventilator so its basically Health care associated Pneumonia for which it would be worth while to collect secretion from oral tube and send it for Culture to look for cause of pneumonia and treat the same and also continue symptomatic treatment if required for maintaining Blood pressure and Heart rate and Urine output for now.