Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: Postinfectious, postimmunization and variant forms

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1321-1329

  Behan, Peter O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endothelial cell damage; Endotoxin; Immune vasculopathy; Plasma exchange; Postimmunization; Postinfectious

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; RABIES VACCINE; STEROID; VACCINE; VACCINIA VACCINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STEROID THERAPY;

ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; STEROIDS; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 70349473207     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.09.90     Document Type: Review

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