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Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with CVID Under Different Schedules of Immunoglobulin Administration: Prospective Multicenter Study [PDF]
We assessed the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in CVID adults receiving different schedules of immunoglobulin replacement therapy (IgRT) by intravenous (IVIG), subcutaneous (SCIG), and facilitated (fSCIG) preparations.
Agostini, Carlo +13 more
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Use of Intravenous Immunoglobulins in Intensive Therapy
The main cause of death in the intensive care units is infectious complications, including sepsis and septic shock. Immunoglobulins are the most potent mechanisms in anti-infective defense.
E. A. Latysheva, T. V. Latysheva
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Fewer than ten reported cases of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) have been managed with intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIg). We report a case of a 72-year-old man who presented with a worsening cough and diffuse opacities on chest radiograph ...
Christian Akem Dimala +6 more
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Immunoglobulin: production, mechanisms of action and formulations
Human immunoglobulin (Ig) began to be applied in the clinical practice with the treatment of primary immunodeficiencies. Quickly, applications of Ig increased, as its anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory functions were elucidated.
Marcia Cristina Zago Novaretti +1 more
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Hashimoto's encephalopathy: A long-lasting remission induced by intravenous immunoglobulins [PDF]
Background. Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is a rare autoimmune syndrome characterized by various neuropsychiatric manifestations, responsive to steroid treatment and associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Drulović Jelena +3 more
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Background: The large-scale utilization of immunoglobulins in patients with inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) since 1952 prompted the discovery of their key role at high doses as immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory therapy, in the treatment of IEI ...
Francesca Conti +14 more
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Use of intravenous immunoglobulin in neonates with haemolytic disease and immune thrombocytopenia [PDF]
Background/Aim. Intravenous immunoglobulin is a blood product made of human polyclonal immunoglobulin G. The mode of action of intravenous immunoglobulin is very complex.
Marković-Sovtić Gordana +4 more
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Serum levels of matrix metalloproteinases-2 and-9 and their tissue inhibitors in inflammatory neuromuscular disorders [PDF]
We monitored serum levels of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their tissue inhibitors (TIMPs) before and during intravenously applied immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy in 33 patients with chronic immune-mediated neuropathies and myopathies and 15 ...
B.G.H. Schoser +15 more
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IMMUNOREGULATORY EFFECTS OF INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULINS
Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) is widely used in modern clinical practice inorder to cure different clinical disorders, including obstetric conditions. Currently, IVIGs have become drugs of choice for treatment of anti-phospholipid
S. A. Sel'kov +2 more
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We report the outcome of a 43 year old man who developed fatal ventriculoencephalitis due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection 7 months post allogeneic stem cell transplant.
Ian Pang +5 more
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