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| | Diabetes: Gamma globulin levels predict type 2 diabetes i... @ HighBeam Research |
 | | Familial relationships of gamma globulin levels were assessed by calculation of the intraclass correlation coefficient conditional upon family membership (for siblings) or Pearson interclass correlation coefficients (between pairs of parents and the mean of their children or between mothers and fathers). | | | Concentrations of gamma globulin by this method agree with quantification by electrophoresis (14) but have been almost entirely replaced in clinical practice with newer methods allowing quantification of immunoglobulin subfractions. | | | There were too few subjects in the present study with repeated measures of gamma globulin before and after changes in glucose tolerance to explore this issue. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:80369057&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | Failure of earlier polio vaccine - 1955 account |
| | Hammond was interested in a "controlled experiment," parents were interested in saving their children from the jaws of the dreaded monster, polio. | | | But they justify their pumping of this soup into the bodies of children on the grounds, to quote the words of one San Antonio pediatrician, that "We don’t want to support any useless means and we don’t want to overlook the possibilities of its success." | | | Why were they having needles stuck into them? |
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http://www.vaccines.plus.com/failire-gamma.html
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| | * Gamma - (Disease): Definition |
| | A type of radiation therapy that uses gamma radiation. | | | They can also be effective in reducing pain,... | | | Radiation therapy, also known as radiotherapy, uses high-energy rays (x-rays, gamma rays) to destroy cancer cells. |
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http://www.bestknows.com/disease/gamma.html
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| | Blood Safety Transcripts |
| | There have never been controlled studies done on this material, but this is a retrospective study done out of England. | | | We had been led to believe for 25 years that in assessing our risk, our donor exposure was about 20,000. | | | Then, when we finally learned to use it properly, to give the patient enough material, it really made a dramatic improvement. |
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http://www.os.dhhs.gov/bloodsafety/transcripts/apr27_98.html
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| | BCMA > BC Medical Journal > Issues > BCMJ October 2000 Edition |
| | Intravenous immune globulin in the therapy of myocarditis and acute cardiomyopathy. | | | Dietrich G, Kaveri SV, Kazatchkine MD. Modulation of autoimmunity by intravenous immune globulin through interactions with the function of the immune/idiotypic network. | | | Yu Z, Lennon VA. Mechanism of intravenous immune globulin therapy in antibody-mediated autoimmune disease. |
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http://www.bcma.org/public/bc_medical_journal/BCMJ/2000/october_2000/IntravenousGammaGlobulin.asp
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| | This is based on studies in the very elderly, who have a compromised immune system. | | | We do use it in pediatric HIV cases, especially when they have AIDS-related problems. | | | We have followed 14 patients using gamma globulin; only one of them has discontinued the treatment. |
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http://www.qrd.org/qrd/aids/atn/1992/ATN-152-6.5.92
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| | CBER Letter - Important Drug Warning: Acute Renal Failure Associated With Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human) |
| | Cayco AV, Perazella MA, Hayslett JP: Renal insufficiency after intravenous immune globulin therapy: A Report of Two Cases and an Analysis of the Literature. | | | CBER Letter - Important Drug Warning: Acute Renal Failure Associated With Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human) | | | Kessler DA, Introducing MEDWATCH: A new approach to reporting medication and device adverse effects and product problems. |
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http://www.fda.gov/cber/ltr/igivrenal.htm
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| | Forum - Guestbook - gamma globulin & asthma |
| | She had it as a baby but we can't not find an adult dr that is an immunologist. | | | Has anyone had any experience with using gamma globulin for asthma? | | | Forum - Guestbook - gamma globulin & asthma |
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http://www.ipopi.org/forum/read.php?f=2&i=409&t=409
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| | Pemphigus - Journal Articles |
| | We report our experience with this therapy in three patients with pemphigus vulgaris, one patient with pemphigus foliaceous and two patients suffering from bullous pemphigoid. | | | High-dose intravenous gamma globulin therapy is not associated with serious side-effects. | | | Failure of high-dose intravenous gamma globulin treatment has been reported in three patients with pemphigus vulgaris and in two patients with bullous pemphigoid. |
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~sshapiro/Pemphigus/DiagnosisAndTreatmentsForPemphigus.html
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| | Welcome To My World: Information About Immune Deficiency |
| | You should notify your doctor if you experience headaches that do not respond to standard medications such as Motrin or Tylenol. | | | The dose of gamma globulin varies from patient to patient. | | | It is also determined by measuring the blood level of IgG in the patient at some interval after infusion, and by determining how well a given dose of gamma globulin treats or prevents symptoms in an individual patient. |
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http://quixoticcat.blogspot.com/2005/04/information-about-immune-deficiency.html
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| | HSC: Learning About Kawasaki Disease |
| | So, if a child is due for immunizations within the next 6 months, the parents will need to talk to their child's doctor about this. | | | However, at this time, researchers and doctors believe that the risks associated with using gamma globulin are extremely small. | | | The gamma globulin will interfere with the vaccinations a child may need. |
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http://www.sickkids.on.ca/Kawasaki/GamGlob.asp
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| | Research Results For Pox |
| | A pox is a disease characterised by the formation of pustules on the skin that often leave pockmarks when healed, for example chicken pox. | | | gamma globulin contains these antibodies, it is sometimes taken from patients who have recovered from chicken pox, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases and given to confer a rapid but short- term immunity on persons recently exposed to those diseases. | | | Goat pox is an epidemic disease of goats caused by a virus infection and characterized by fever and a papulovesicular eruption of the skin and mucous membranes. |
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http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Pox&offset=0
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| | ASCO - CAC Region - CAC Final LMRP |
| | RhIg is indicated to prevent "erythroblastosis fetalis", a condition resulting from the Rh incompatibility. | | | It has also been noted that IGIV is beneficial in treating CMV pneumonia in patients who are not ventilator-dependent. | | | Gamma Globulin given to prevent illness is not covered. |
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http://www.asco.org/ac/0,1003,_12-002393-00_18-0018232,00.asp
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| | Responses - Intravenous/Intrathecal Gamma Globulin (Immunoglobulin) |
| | I understand that there are drugs that are supposed to deliver therapies through the blood stream and then manipulate the blood brain barrier to get the therapy into the cerebrospinal fluid. | | | Intravenous gamma globulin has been used in the therapy of a number of immunological disorders of the nervous system, especially myasthenia gravis and inflammatory neuropathies, with considerable success. | | | Many people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are interested in a new treatment that delivers gamma globulin straight into the spinal fluid (intrathecal immunoglobulin, ITIg). |
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http://www.mdausa.org/experts/question.cfm?id=933&disease=66
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| | Globulin - CSC: DVC ANNOUNCES FDA APPROVAL OF VACCINIA IMMUNE GLOBULIN TO |
| | Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine -- High-Dose Intravenous Immune Globulin for Stiff-Person Syndrome. | | | IGIV is used to prevent or treat some illnesses that can | | | A systematic review of intravenous gamma globulin for therapy of acute Intravenous gamma globulin (IVGG) is commonly used in the management of acute |
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http://surferslink.com/q/globulin.htm
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| | Primary Agammaglobulinemia |
| | For best results this should be done under the supervision of a doctor experienced in | | | Treatment with immune globulins has improved the health of people with agammaglobulinemia. | | | This particular group of immune deficiencies may be the consequence of an inherited condition, an impaired immune system (from known or unknown causes), autoimmune diseases, or a malignancy. |
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http://www.medical-library.net/sites/_agammaglobulinemia.html
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| | Re: Pure Gamma Globulin IV |
| | The blood is screened before use, just as any blood product is. This is a controversial therapy that is expensive as well. | | | The gamma globulin used for gamma globulin therapy is produced from human blood. | | | We asked the doctor your questions, and this was his reply: |
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| | children with DIABETES - Ask the Diabetes Team |
| | I have never seen any such connection in the literature. | | | There has long been some research question about immunizations being related to development of type 1 diabetes in children, but a recent, very elegant study, published the past few months in The New England Journal of Medicine has refuted this theory. | | | There is not likely any relation to either the polio "overdose" or the gamma globulin injections. |
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http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/dteam/2004-04/d_0d_c1c.htm
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| | Gossip from individuals between October 1997 - February 1998 |
| | One journalist is chasing it up very hard and it seems that it is such a huge story that he will be difficult to stop. | | | Gamma globulins are going to be difficult to use with suppliers from elsewhere showing that their products are not a risk. | | | Gamma Globulin horror story may well appear soon. |
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http://www.airtime.co.uk/bse/gosi5.htm
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| | Gamma Globulin |
| | Has anyone heard about this, and what ramifications does this have when faced with Hep A exposure where IgG is indicated? | | | I recently gave gamma globulin IM to family members exposed to a relative with Hep A. When I tried to order another bottle, I was told that it's almost impossible to get now and should be given with caution because of concerns regarding Hep C virus being transmitted by the IgG. |
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http://www.pcc.com/lists/pedtalk.archive/9803/0260.html
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| | Intravenous Immunoglobulins |
| | Common questions patients ask about IVIg therapy for Myasthenia Gravis. | | | IVIg has been used for decades in modern medicine in the treatment of a variety of infectious or inflammatory diseases. | | | It is also known as pooled human gamma globulin or simply gamma globulin. |
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http://www.myasthenia.org/information/IVIg.htm
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| | Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) Therapy |
| | Intravenous Immune Globulin therapy for the treatment of the following off-labeled indications/diseases is considered medically necessary: | | | Human Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) therapy for the treatment of the following FDA labeled indications/diseases is considered medically necessary: | | | "Intravenous immune globulin for inclusion-body myositis." May 1995;10(2):1-11. |
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http://www.bcbst.com/MPManual/Intravenous_Immune_Globulin_(IVIG)_Therapy.htm
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| | AHMF: References for Immunoglobulin treatment |
| | Gamma globulin was shown to improve symptoms in 53% of the patients treated, compared with 32% of placebo injections. | | | 89.5% of 57 patients treated with a gamma globulin treatment program remained in the treatment program because of relief of symptoms, and only four patients dropped out because there was no relief of symptoms or side effects. | | | Four patients experienced complete relief of symptoms following a variable length treatment program. |
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http://www.ahmf.org/database/ivigtreatment.html
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| | Subacute Sclerosing Pancephalitis |
| | Clinical presentation: personality changes, intellectual deterioration; periodic involuntary movements; decerebrate rigidity, severe dementia | | | Gross pathology: Cortical atrophy, demyelination and ventricular dilatation may all be present; changes are mild and are not diagnostic. | | | CSF changes: elevated gamma globulin; antibody titer elevated to measles |
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http://kobiljak.msu.edu/CAI/Pathology/CNS_Infections_F/CNS_1i.html
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| | Letters - www.immed.org |
| | I have had one other hospital treatment and am conscientious about my allergy program. | | | He also admitted me to the hospital for a 23 hour I.V. treatment of gamma globulin, vitamins and antibiotics. | | | Airborne Division (Air Assault) out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. |
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| | Gamma globulin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Injections are most commonly used on patients who have been exposed to hepatitis A or measles. | | | Injections are also used to boost immunity in patients who lack the ability to produce gamma globulins because of an immune deficiency, such as X-linked agammaglobulinemia and hyper IgM deficiency. | | | Gamma globulin injections are sometimes given in an attempt to temporarily boost a patient's immunity against disease. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_globulin
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| | CJNS-Seronegative Myasthenia Gravis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Response to Intravenous Gamma Globulin ... |
| | Prednisone therapy and intravenous gamma globulin were associated with rapid clinical recovery. | | | Conclusions: Prednisone therapy and intravenous gamma globulin may be helpful in patients with generalized myasthenia gravis complicating HIV infection. | | | Results: The diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection followed that of myasthenia gravis in a 35-year-old man. Clinical and electrophysiological features were diagnostic of generalized myasthenia gravis but two edrophonium chloride tests and acetylcholine receptor antibodies were negative. |
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| | Immunity (Mutable?) |
| | Does anyone have any experience they could share? | | | The only problem is that I think all commercially-prepared GG has thimerosal (a mercury derivative) as a preservative in it. | | | Re: So how do you stimulate IgG production ? |
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http://www.askwaltstollmd.com/archives/immunity/123381.html
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| | gamma globulin on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Injections of gamma globulin are used to create a rapid but temporary immunity in patients who have been exposed to certain diseases. | | | Viral filtration of plasma-derived human IgG: a case study using Viresolve NFP.(immuno gamma-globulin) | | | Children who have been exposed to, but are not immunized against, measles and patients with hepatitis receive some protection from gamma globulin when it is administered during the incubation period of the infection. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/g1/gammaglo.asp
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| | Kawasaki Disease MEDSTUDENTS-PEDIATRICS |
| | Salicylate therapy is also indicated during the febrile phase; therapeutic serum concentrations of 20-30mg/dl are desirable but may be difficult to achieve, even whit doses of salicylates as high as 100mg/kg/24hr. | | | Side effects of intravenous gamma globulin therapy are rare and include anaphylaxis, chills, fever, headache, and myalgia. | | | Kawasaki disease responds dramatically to therapy with intravenous gamma globulin given during the period of active febrile disease. |
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| | Gamma globulin |
| | Gamma globulin injections are sometimes given in attempt to temporarily boost a patient's immunity disease. | | | Injections are most commonly used on who have been exposed to hepatitis A or measles. | | | Such injections are less common in medical practice than they were previously and of gamma globulin previously recommended for travellers largely been replaced by the use of hepatitis A vaccine. |
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| | Kawasaki Disease, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| | The infusion is most effective if given within the first 10 days of the illness. | | | Based upon the thought that Kawasaki Disease is due to an inflammatory process, the therapy has centered on using anti-inflammatory medications, and this approach has helped decrease the complications of Kawasaki Disease. | | | The medical literature indicates that an infusion of gamma globulin (IVIG) can decrease, but NOT eliminate, the risk of developing coronary aneurysms. |
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| | CJNS - Devic’s Neuromyelitis Optica Treated with Intravenous Gamma Globulin (IVIG) |
| | There is no proven effective treatment although relapses are commonly treated with corticosteroids and people with recurrent attacks may be managed with chronic immune suppressing treatments. | | | Devic’s Neuromyelitis Optica Treated with Intravenous Gamma Globulin (IVIG) | | | CJNS - Devic’s Neuromyelitis Optica Treated with Intravenous Gamma Globulin (IVIG) |
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| | July 1993 - Intravenous Gamma Globulin |
| | However, it rapidly became apparent that these could be used to treat a variety of autoimmune diseases and as adjunct treatment for specific patients at high risk for potentially fatal infections. | | | Intravenous gamma globulin preparations were originally developed for the treatment of antibody deficiency states. | | | Transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C has not been reported with any of the preparations used in the United States and, with the multiple effective donor screening procedures and viral inactivation steps that are used in the manufacturing of IV-IgG, infection with these organisms does not appear possible. |
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| | How will we fight polio this year |
| | Prior to its use against polio, gamma globulin was chiefly used in the prevention of measles and treatment of infectious hepatitis. | | | Moreover, there is evidence that an effective vaccine may be made available in a relatively short time. | | | Gamma globulin (also called immune-serum globulin) is that part of human blood that contains antibodies-small protein particles-that have been built up in the blood stream as a result of the body's fight against disease. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/goldenage/wonder/Archive/Popular/betterhomes0653.htm
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| | Michigan Immunodeficiency Foundation - Dealing with Primary Immune Deficiency |
| | Many individuals affected by primary immune deficiency diseases require life long therapies including intravenous gamma globulin infusions (IVIG), antibiotic therapies, or bone marrow transplantation. | | | With advances in medicine and our increasing knowledge of primary immune deficiency diseases, treatment of primary immune deficient patients who in the past may not have even survived childhood are now capable of living nearly normal lives. | | | The Michigan Immunodeficiency Foundation is dedicated to improving the diagnosis and treatment of primary immune deficiency diseases through research and education. |
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| | gamma globulin -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Antibodies, proteins that combat foreign substances in the body, are associated with the globulin fraction of the immune serum. | | | In humans and many of the other mammals, antibodies, when they are formed, occur in the gamma globulins. | | | As stated previously, when the serum globulins are separated into -, -, and - fractions, antibodies are associated with the -globulins. |
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| | Treatments |
| | For sick patients the risk seems far outweighed by the potential improvement in life style. | | | Gamma Globulin shots have been quite helpful in many patients with CFIDS when taken once or twice a week. | | | The Cheney Clinic published data on both B12 and Gama Globulin shots and I have seen confirmation of the effectiveness of both agents in my patient population. |
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| | Gamma globulin definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Tetanus - Tetanus (lockjaw) is a toxin produced by the bacteria affects the function of the nerves and leads to severe muscle spasms in the abdomen, neck, stomach, and extremities. | | | Gamma globulin definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms | | | Gamma globulin: A major class of immunoglobulins found in the blood, including many of the most common antibodies circulating in the blood. |
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http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=21065
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| | Gamma globulin |
| | May refer to a type of immunoglobulin molecule found in blood serum which behaves in a certain way when subjected to electrophoresis - one which displays "gamma electrophoretic mobility." |
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| | phorum - Public Forum - gamma globulin infusion therapy |
| | Can you tell me if there are any recorded cases of people who are receiving gamma globulin infusion therapy who have experience any unusual side effects? | | | There are occasional mild and self-limiting reactions to IVGG: Fever and muscle aches and pains, headache, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, tachycardia, These occur in less than 5% of all cases. | | | phorum - Public Forum - gamma globulin infusion therapy |
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| | Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.79 (2001) |
| | He decided that the only way to elucidate the nature of the complement pathway was to identify in molecular detail the protein components that constitute the pathway. | | | This observation demolished the previous belief that 19S gamma globulin was merely an aggregate. | | | At the time, Kunkel was interested in the pathogenesis of liver disease, but was already focusing his lifelong attention on the gamma globulins of serum. |
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| | Smallpox Vaccination - Vaccine Immune Globulin (VIG) |
| | Empiric evidence appeared to demonstrate that patients healed when Vaccinia Immune Globulin (VIG) was administered for certain complications. | | | With the reinstitution of vaccination against smallpox, there is increased interest in the use of Vaccinia Immune Globulin. | | | As a result, C. Henry Kempe and others developed the concept of providing antibody in the form of gamma globulin. |
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| | Management of human immunodeficiency virus-associated thrombocytopenia with intravenous gamma globulin. |
| | Management of human immunodeficiency virus-associated thrombocytopenia with intravenous gamma globulin. | | | A 17-month-old boy in whom immune-mediated thrombocytopenia (ITP) was the presenting manifestation of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is being successfully managed with intermittent high-dose intravenous gamma globulin (IVIG) allowing maintenance of hemostatic platelet counts while avoiding the immunosuppression associated with other therapeutic modalities used to treat ITP. | | | The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. |
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| | Intravenous gamma globulin and mercury |
| | Intravenous gamma globulin (IVIG) treatment of autoimmune kidney disease associated with mercury (Hg++) toxicity. |
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