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Is it common for a patient to gain weight after having a thymus removed?
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Thyroid: removal may surely make you gain weight the thymus sort of dissappears in child hood and does not effect metabolism. The thymus is largest and most active during the neonatal and pre-adolescent periods. By the early teens, the thymus begins to atrophy and thymic stroma is mostly replaced by adipose (fat) tissue. Nevertheless, residual T lymphopoiesis continues throughout adult life.
Answered 9/28/2016
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