Immune therapy for pharmacoresistant epilepsy: Ready to go?

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 1572-1573

  Rüegg, Stephan ^a   Panzer, Jessica A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; CELL MEMBRANE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFANTILE SPASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACORESISTANT EPILEPTIC SYNDROME; PLASMA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEIZURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY;

EID: 84902169451     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000391     Document Type: Editorial

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