Immunoadsorption or plasma exchange in steroid‐refractory multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica

Lipphardt, Mark; Mühlhausen, Johannes; Kitze, Bernd; Heigl, Franz; Mauch, E.; Helms, Hans‐Joachim; A. Müller, Gerhard; Koziolek, Michael

doi:10.1002/jca.21686

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Immunoadsorption or plasma exchange in steroid‐refractory multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica

Published in Journal of Clinical Apheresis • Jan 30, 2019

Authors:

Mark Lipphardt

Johannes Mühlhausen

Bernd Kitze

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Plasma exchange (PE) and immunoadsorption (IA) are alternative treatments of steroid-refractory relapses of multiple sclerosis (MS) or neuromyelitis optica (NMO). METHODS: Adverse events and neurological follow-ups in 127 MS- (62 PE, 65 IA) and 13 NMO- (11 PE, 2 IA) patients were retrosp...

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Medicine

Immunoadsorption

Neuromyelitis optica

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