Early IVIg treatment has no effect on post-H1N1 narcolepsy phenotype or hypocretin deficiency

Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 102-103

  Knudsen, Stine ^a   Biering Sørensen, Bo ^a   Kornum, Birgitte R ^a,b   Petersen, Eva R ^a   Ibsen, Jette D ^a   Gammeltoft, Steen ^a   Mignot, Emmanuel ^b   Jennum, Poul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFLUENZA VACCINE; OREXIN; STREPTOLYSIN O;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CATAPLEXY; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; EXCITEMENT; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASOMNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP QUALITY; SOMNOLENCE; VACCINATION;

EID: 84863591736     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31825dce03     Document Type: Article

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