Efficacy and Safety of intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in refractory uveitis
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Abbreviations: Biologic response modifiers (BRM); Electroretinography (ERG); Fluorescein angiography (FA); Indocyanine green angiography (ICG); Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIg); Immunomodulatory Therapy (IMT); Optical coherence tomography (OCT); right eye (OD); Left eye (OS); Both eyes (OU); Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). 1Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Waltham, MA. Email: [email protected] 2Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation, Waltham, MA, USA. Email: [email protected] 3Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Email: [email protected] Copyright: © Sahawneh H MD, Maleki A MD, Foster CS MD, FACR, FACS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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