Home-based IVIg treatment is convenient and time-saving in patients with multifocal motor neuropathy

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-149

  Cats, Elisabeth A ^a   Van Der Pol, W Ludo ^a   Bertens, Anne S ^a   Van Den Berg, Leonard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANAPHYLAXIS; CHILL; DROWSINESS; DRUG SAFETY; HEADACHE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFUSION; INFUSION RATE; LETTER; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MULTIFOCAL MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; TIME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME;

EID: 80054851151     PISSN: 10859489     EISSN: 15298027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8027.2011.00341.x     Document Type: Letter

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