Acute treatment of myasthenic crisis with immunoadsorption (IA) or plasma exchange is well established. The efficiency of chronic apheresis therapy in myasthenia gravis (MG), however, and its efficacy in reducing concomitant potentially harmful immunosuppressive therapy, is unknown. We treated 13 pa
Long-term corticosteriod treatment of myasthenia gravis: Report of 116 Patients
โ Scribed by Robert M. Pascuzzi; H. Branch Coslett; Dr T. R. Johns
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 669 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
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