1.How to correctly understand myasthenia gravis? Is it harmful? Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease with dysfunction of neuromuscular junction transmission. The main clinical characteristics are that the affected muscles are easily fatigued and can be partially recovered after rest. All muscles in the body can be involved, mainly the eye muscles. If the respiratory muscles are involved, myasthenia gravis may become critical or even life-threatening. Traditional medicine has long been documented and researched, and generations of doctors believe that the pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis is mainly due to spleen and stomach disease. Our department adopts Professor Deng Tietao, a famous veteran Chinese medicine practitioner who has unique research on this disease, and uses a set of treatment method of tonifying the spleen and benefiting the qi to treat the root throughout the whole process and treating the symptoms in between, ruling it with strong muscle and healthy drink, and adding and subtracting with the evidence to treat its concurrent evidence according to the theory related to the five organs. 2.What are the treatment means for myasthenia gravis? What is the effect? At present, the treatment means are: surgery, western medicine (including anticholinesterase drugs, hormones, immunosuppressants), plasma replacement therapy, and Chinese medicine. However, each of these means has its own advantages and disadvantages. In general, most doctors are limited by their specialties, and the treatment effect is not very satisfactory. 3.What are the special features of thoracic surgery in Chinese hospital? In our department, patients can get a comprehensive treatment of both Chinese and Western medicine, medical and surgical treatment, which greatly improves the treatment effect and cure rate of patients. 4.Why do we need surgery for myasthenia gravis? How is the surgery done? Is it very traumatic? Clinical and basic medicine show that about 90% of patients have pathological changes in the thymus gland, and recent studies have shown that the thymus gland has a key role in its pathogenesis, and myasthenia gravis may develop into a generalized type in adult patients, and surgical treatment can prevent the progression of the disease. Patients with myasthenia gravis with thymoma should receive surgical treatment, except for contraindications to surgery, and should undergo thymic contouring, i.e. complete removal of the tumor, thymus and possible thymic lobules (up to the meridian, down to the pericardial diaphragm angle, and both sides to the phrenic nerve) and anterior mediastinal fat. The transsternal median sternal incision thymectomy currently adopted by our department is the most complete clearance of all surgical approaches and can effectively prevent the recurrence problem, which is most troubling to surgeons. Due to the advancement of anesthesia and surgical techniques, the surgery can be completed in about 1-2 hours and is not very traumatic. 5.How is its surgical result? What do I need to pay attention to after the surgery? Most studies have shown that its surgical effect is significantly better than that of medical treatment, so it is also its preferred treatment option. However, it usually takes about one year after thymoma surgery to see the effect of surgery, so standard medication for myasthenia gravis is still needed after surgery, and the use of hormones or immunosuppressants is crucial, in addition to improving symptoms with bromipyridostigmine.