Therapeutic plasma exchange in the treatment of neuroimmunologic disorders: Review of 50 cases

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-107

  Yücesan, Canan ^a   Arslan, Önder ^b   Arat, Mutlu ^b   Yücemen, Nezih ^a   Ayyildiz, Erol ^b   Ilhan, Osman ^b   Mutluer, Nermin ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Hematology   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; Chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy (CIDP); Guillain Barr syndrome; Multiple sclerosis; Myasthenia gravis; Paraproteinemic neuropathy; Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE); Transverse myelitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLASMAPHERESIS; RELAPSE; REMISSION; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ANEMIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; PLASMA EXCHANGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 33847363208     PISSN: 14730502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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