Specific immunoadsorption therapy using
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Yuji Nagatomo; Akiyasu Baba; Hiroyuki Ito; Kotaro Naito; Akihiro Yoshizawa; Yasu
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Background: Certain cardiac-specific autoantibodies found in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) play a role in mediating myocardial damage and fatal ventricular arrhythmias resulting in sudden cardiac death. Immunoadsorption therapy (IA) is one of the therapeutic tools to remove such autoant