Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy, and Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration... 

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Observational studies In an observational study in 51 patients with primary immunodeficiencies with 642 infusions, drug-related adverse reactions occurred during six infusions in four patients none was serious [51 ]. In another study in 46 patients with primary immunodeficiency, 20% of the 601 infusions were associated with treatment-related adverse events, none of which was serious. Of the treatment-related adverse events, 59% were categorized as mild, 36% as moderate, and 5% as severe most were transient [44. In a safety study in 208 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), 113 patients were exposed to 1096 infusions of intravenous immunoglobulin 55% had drug-related adverse events, an adverse event rate of 18 per 100 infusions, with five serious adverse reactions during the 1-year study [45. ... 

Donofrio PD, Bril V, Dalakas MC, Deng C, Hanna K, Hartung HP, Hughes R, Latov N, Merkies I, van Doom P. Safety and tolerability of immune globulin intravenous in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. Arch Neurol 2010 67(9) 1082-8. 

Nervous system Infusion-related headache affected more than 50% of treated individuals in a cohort of patients with multiple sclerosis [138 ]. Anxiety, syncope, vertigo, dizziness, tremor, paresthesia, and hypesthe-sia are common undesirable reactions during treatment or within 30 days after the completion of treatment with alemtuzumab. Guil-lain-Barre syndrome and its chronic form, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, have also been reported. 

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