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Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) treatment is shown to be effective in a selected group of patients with a chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). The proportion of patients that improve after IVIg treatment varies between studies. Because 40% of a group of IVIg treated CIDP patients needed intermittent IVIg infusions to maintain their improved clinical condition, it is expec...
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Thirty patients with definite or probable chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) of chronic progressive (16 patients) or relapsing (14 patients) course were randomly assigned to receive intravenous immunoglobulin (IvIg) 0.4 g per kg body weight or a placebo treatment on 5 consecutive days in a double-blind, cross-over trial. Neurological function was monitored by seria...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 1990
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-4-2-1