Improvement with corticosteroids and azathioprine in GAD65-associated cerebellar ataxia

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1308-1309

  McFarland, Nikolaus R ^a   Login, Ivan S ^a   Vernon, Samuel ^b   Burns, Ted M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Smith Regional Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65 ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ENZYME ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; AZATHIOPRINE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749837926     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000238389.83574.be     Document Type: Article

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