Successful treatment in a patient with a focal form of stiff-person syndrome using plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 766-770

  Shiraishi, Hirokazu ^a   Motomura, Masakatsu ^a   Iwanaga, Hiroshi ^a   Tsujino, Akira ^a   Nishiura, Yoshihiro ^a   Shirabe, Susumu ^a   Nakamura, Tatsufumi ^b   Yoshimura, Toshiro ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) antibody; Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) therapy; Plasma exchange; Stiff leg (limb) syndrome; Stiff person syndrome

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMUNOTHERAPY; JAPAN; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; STIFF MAN SYNDROME;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LEG; PLASMA EXCHANGE; STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036706057     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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