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Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) Therapy: How It Works and What to Expect
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a type of medication used to treat people with immunodeficiencies, when the immune ...
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Intravenous Immunoglobulin Likely More Effective Than Corticosteroids in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
Nobile-Orazio and colleagues (2012) compared two of the more commonly used therapies for CIDP: IV immunoglobulin (IVIg) and IV methylprednisolone. The authors performed a multicenter, randomized ...
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Intravenous Immunoglobulin IgG Response Associated with Poor Outcome in Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Due to the autoimmune etiology of this disorder, IV immunoglobulin (IVIg) or plasma exchange (PE) are the first-line treatments in addition to management of ventilatory failure. IVIg is more ...
17 persons undergoing treatment for Guillain-Barre Syndrome in Andhra Pradesh, says official
Seventeen GBS patients in Andhra Pradesh receiving treatment; health officials urge calm, report normal figures and available ...
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GBS outbreak: After Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka ramp up surveillance; 21 deaths reported in India so far
In Karnataka the state health department is ramping up (GBS) disease surveillance and monitoring efforts to prevent a ...
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Health emergency declared in Peru
Among the measures are the acquisition of intravenous immunoglobulin and human albumin, as well as specialized diagnosis of the biological agents associated with the syndrome and air-assisted ...