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Plasma exchange in neuroimmunological disorders: part 2. Treatment of neuromuscular disorders.

Lehmann HC, Hartung HP, Hetzel GR, Stüve O, Kieseier BC

Department of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.

Plasma exchange is a well-established therapeutic procedure commonly used in many neurological disorders of autoimmune etiology. In this second part of our review, we assess the role of plasma exchange in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders. In Guillain-Barré syndrome and other immune-mediated neuropathic disorders, randomized controlled trials have demonstrated the therapeutic efficacy of plasma exchange. Myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton syndrome represent neuromuscular disorders where plasmapheresis might be of potential efficacy.

Published 15 August 2006 in Arch Neurol, 63(8): 1066-71.
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