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In recent years, immunoadsorption has become an increasingly recognized alternative to therapeutic plasmapheresis used totreat neurological diseases, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, myastheniagravis, neuromyelitis optica and its spectrum disorders, multiple sclerosis, or autoimmune encephalitides. In contrast to therapeuticplasmapheresis that requires plasma exchange with albumin or fresh-frozen plasma, immunoadsorption is a technique allowingselective removal of humoral factors, primarily of pathological autoantibodies, with a high-affinity adsorbent. This therapeuticmethod has fewer adverse effects when compared with plasmapheresis. It can significantly improve the treatment and prognosisof patients with autoimmune neurological disorders.

Author

MUDr. Jiří Piťha

Publisher

Neurologie pro praxi

Published

2018