March 26, 2012 — The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has published an evidence-based guideline on the use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders.

Immunoglobulin—one of nature's own defence mechanisms—is a highly effective treatment for a wide variety of inflammatory diseases, and has become an important but expensive weapon in the neurologist's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American College of Rheumatology and the Vasculitis Foundation have released new guidelines for Kawasaki ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Intravenous immune globulin (IVIg) is an effective treatment for certain disorders of the nerve and muscles, including Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and a form of neuropathy called ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . IVIG had favorable effects on skin thickening, muscle and joint pain, and gastrointestinal symptoms of systemic ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) results in disability through immune-mediated nerve injury, which can lead to irreversible deficits after the inflammatory component of CIDP is ...

Nine-year-old Jack Stackpoole, who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, developed a host of new symptoms — severe tics, an aversion to eating and picking at himself until he bled — after getting sick ...

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is used to replenish immunoglobulins in hypogammaglobulinemia (HG) caused by hematologic malignancies (HM) or their treatment (autologous stem-cell transplantation ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is thought to be an autoimmune condition. When you have CIDP, your immune system sees your nerves as foreign and attacks them. The attack ...

With use of intravenous immune globulin (IVIg) for the treatment of adults with dermatomyositis, a significantly higher percentage of patients experienced at least minimal improvement in disease ...