Tab. II.

Results of studies on the clinical consequences of thymectomy

Clinical consequences of thymectomy	Author (reference)
Increased risk of autoimmune diseases and neurodegenerative diseases	Zlamy et al. [12]
Lesser response to some vaccines (e.g., against tick-borne encephalitis)	Prelog et al. [17]
Longer hospitalizations with typical infections	Kurobe et al. [22]
No differences in disease incidence Longer recovery after infections	Mancebo et al. [27] Cao et al. [30]