The effect of combined therapy with immunoadsorption and high-dose intravenous methylprednisolone on myasthenia gravis

European Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 115-117

  Munakata, Reiko ^a   Utsugisawa, Kimiaki ^b   Nagane, Yuriko ^b   Yamagata, Munehisa ^b   Oikawa, Miyuki ^b   Obara, Daiji ^b   Tohgi, Hideo ^b  

^a Iwate Prefectural Daito Hospital   (Japan)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOADSORPTION; INFORMED CONSENT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYMECTOMY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036375171     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000062987     Document Type: Article

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