Steroid therapy and plasmapheresis in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy; A long-term follow-up study

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 208-212

  Hanaoka, Naoko ^a   Hanyu, Norinao ^a   Yanagisawa, Nobuo ^b  

^a NAGANO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy; Double filtration plasmapheresis; Immunoadsorption plasmapheresis; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 0031836896     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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