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Published on: May 28, 2009
Treatment of Vasculitis of the Nervous System
1Department of Neurology, Division of Neuro-Epidemiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; School of Public Health, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract:
The diagnosis of primary central and peripheral nerve vasculitides should be established with certainty if suspected before commencing potent immunosuppressive therapy. The aim of induction therapy is to rapidly control the underlying inflammatory response and stabilize the blood-brain and blood-nerve barriers, followed by maintenance immunosuppression tailored to the likeliest humoral and cell-mediated autoimmune inflammatory vasculitic processes.
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