Apheresis in Neurological Disorders

• Other Authors: Dorst, Johannes (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Medicine; immunoadsorption; acute relapsing multiple sclerosis; plasma exchange; therapeutic apheresis; multiple sclerosis; optic neuritis; relapse; class IV; steroids; Alzheimer's clinical syndrome; dementia; autoantibodies; α1-Adrenergic receptor; Inflammatory neuropathy; chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Guillain-Barré syndrome; paranodal antibodies; plasmapheresis; Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; ß2 adrenoreceptor autoantibody; autoimmune encephalitis; limbic encephalitis; NMDAR (N-Methyl-D-Aspartat); antibody; paraneoplastic; apheresis; therapeutic plasma exchange; neurological diseases; CRP; stroke; inflammation; n/a
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Apheresis refers to an extracorporeal therapy which aims at removing pathological constituents from the patients' blood. Due to the development of new techniques as well as the discovery of novel autoimmune antibodies, it is increasingly recognized as an important therapeutic option for a varie...