Intravenous high-dose immunoglobulin treatment in recent onset childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy Export

@article{citeulike:3575609, abstract = {Abstract\ \ We report on the outcome of intravenous high-dose immunoglobulin (IVIg) treatment in four children with narcolepsy and cataplexy, in whom the early diagnosis and the extreme disease severity were indications for this potentially efficacious therapy. One of four patients showed an objective and persistent improvement in clinical features during and after IVIg treatment. Our data partially support the recent report of the efficacy of IVIg treatment in early diagnosed narcolepsy with cataplexy and support the need for a controlled multicenter clinical trial on IVIg in narcolepsy.}, author = {Plazzi, Giuseppe and Poli, Francesca and Franceschini, Christian and Parmeggiani, Antonia and Pirazzoli, Piero and Bernardi, Filippo and Mignot, Emmanuel and Cicognani, Alessandro and Montagna, Pasquale}, citeulike-article-id = {3575609}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00415-008-0983-7}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/p2q5662u707154r5}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/s00415-008-0983-7}, journal = {Journal of Neurology}, keywords = {cataplexy, immunology, narcolepsy}, month = {October}, number = {10}, pages = {1549--1554}, posted-at = {2008-11-18 19:08:27}, priority = {2}, title = {Intravenous high-dose immunoglobulin treatment in recent onset childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00415-008-0983-7}, volume = {255}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3575609 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3575609 N2 - Abstract  We report on the outcome of intravenous high-dose immunoglobulin (IVIg) treatment in four children with narcolepsy and cataplexy, in whom the early diagnosis and the extreme disease severity were indications for this potentially efficacious therapy. One of four patients showed an objective and persistent improvement in clinical features during and after IVIg treatment. Our data partially support the recent report of the efficacy of IVIg treatment in early diagnosed narcolepsy with cataplexy and support the need for a controlled multicenter clinical trial on IVIg in narcolepsy. IS - 10 JF - Journal of Neurology EP - 1554 TI - Intravenous high-dose immunoglobulin treatment in recent onset childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy VL - 255 SP - 1549 KW - cataplexy KW - immunology KW - narcolepsy AU - Plazzi, Giuseppe AU - Poli, Francesca AU - Franceschini, Christian AU - Parmeggiani, Antonia AU - Pirazzoli, Piero AU - Bernardi, Filippo AU - Mignot, Emmanuel AU - Cicognani, Alessandro AU - Montagna, Pasquale PY - 2008/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00415-008-0983-7 ER -