Successful management with intravenous immunoglobulins in alemtuzumab-induced acute inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy: Clinical report of three patients

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 717-720

  Castelli, Roberto ^a   Gritti, Giuseppe ^a   Cannavò, Antonino ^a   Moreo, Guido ^a   Conti, Giancarlo ^a   Reda, Gianluigi ^a   Cortelezzi, Agostino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy; Alemtuzumab; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; CHLORAMBUCIL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUDARABINE; IG VENA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84863791238     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: 15322513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08923973.2011.644295     Document Type: Article

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