A case report of plasma exchange therapy in non-paraneoplastic cerebellar ataxia associated with Anti-Yo antibody

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 500-502

  Meloni, Carlo ^a   Iani, Cesare ^a   Dominijanni, Sara ^a,b   Arciprete, Flavio ^a   Cipriani, Silvia ^a   Caramiello, Maria Stella ^a   Tozzo, Carmela ^a   Lombardo, Pietrina Angela ^a   Tatangelo, Paola ^a   Cecilia, Annalisa ^a   Straccialano, Emilia ^a   Casciani, Carlo Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti Yo autoantibody; Cerebellar ataxia; Non paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration; Plasma exchange

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURKINJE CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 19944427297     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1774-9987.2004.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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