ivig in A Sentence

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    If they need treatment, Ivig can be used.

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    They will continue to follow these patients as Ivig is discontinued.

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    Intravenous immune globulin(Ivig) preparations are efficacious and safe products in use world-wide.

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    For example, you may be given another trial of steroids or Ivig.

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    A relapse of symptoms may occur soon after initial treatment with Ivig.

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    In it, 6 patients with severe MMP were treated with Ivig for 8 to 20 months.

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    If the number of platelets needs to be increased then steroids or Ivig can be used.

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    This treatment can become a lifetime commitment or the condition may be resolved and Ivig can be discontinued.

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    Treatment with Ivig can cause allergic and nonallergic acute reactions, aseptic meningitis, fluid overload and, rarely, other serious reactions.

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    Thus, even though Ivig can decrease serum level of pemphigus antibodies, these will go right back up shortly after the procedure.

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    Dr. Grando also spoke on adjuvant drugs(to reduce steroid doses) and the use of Ivig and an immunosuppressive to reduce disease activity.

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    As the treatments went on and symptoms decreased, steroids and immunosuppressants were slowly reduced and the time between Ivig cycles was lengthened.

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    Ivig by itself is most useful within the first seven days of onset of fever, in terms of preventing coronary artery aneurysm.

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    Salicylate therapy, particularly aspirin, remains an important part of the treatment(though questioned by some) but salicylates alone are not as effective as Ivig.

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    Did you know 13 million liters of plasma are collected each year, and the antibodies extracted from this plasma is what makes Ivig?

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    Intravenous immunoglobulin(Ivig) is the standard treatment for Kawasaki disease and is administered in high doses with marked improvement usually noted within 24 hours.

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    Some vaccines- particularly measles, mumps and rubella(MMR)- may need to be delayed for some months after Ivig treatment, which may cause them to be less effective.

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    I have never done Ivig or Rituxan although these therapies were discussed as options had I not finally started doing well on the meds I was on.

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    The information we have is great, but without more involvement from pemphigoid patients, Ivig users, and men in general, we are only seeing part of the picture that could change everything.

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    Even when treated with high-dose Ivig regimens within the first 10 days of illness, 5% of children with Kawasaki disease develop at the least transient coronary artery dilation and 1% develop giant aneurysms.

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    Then, the normal antibodies are replaced by those present in the Ivig that is administered, whereas abnormal antibodies are absent in Ivig and so they are not replaced- only they remain reduced following Ivig.

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    Laboratory evidence of increased inflammation combined with demographic features(male sex, age less than six months or greater than eight years) and incomplete response to Ivig therapy create a profile of a high-risk patient with Kawasaki disease.

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    Many risk factors predicting coronary artery aneurysms have been identified, including persistent fever after Ivig therapy, low hemoglobin concentrations, low albumin concentrations, high white-blood-cell count, high band count, high CRP concentrations, male sex, and age less than one year.

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