Prevention of infectious diseases in patients with Good syndrome

A Multani, CA Gomez, JG Montoya - Current Opinion in Infectious …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Immunological deficits and infectious complications in Good syndrome have been described
for over 60 years. Further research is needed to elucidate its exact pathogenesis and define …

Effects of IVIg treatment on autoantibody testing in neurological patients: marked reduction in sensitivity but reliable specificity

T Grüter, A Ott, W Meyer, S Jarius, M Kinner, J Motte… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Therapy of autoimmune diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system
with intravenous IgG immunoglobulin (IVIg) is well established. Since IVIg is produced from …

IV immunoglobulin confounds JC virus antibody serostatus determination

I Kister, G Kuesters, E Chamot, M Omari… - Neuroimmunology & …, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To determine the impact of therapeutic infusion of IV immunoglobulin (IVIg) on
John Cunningham virus antibody (JCV Ab) serostatus and level in serum. Methods: We …

Transient derangements in Hepatitis B serology in patients post-intravenous immunoglobulin therapy—a case-based review

C King, U Sutton-Fitzpatrick, J Houlihan - Irish Journal of Medical Science …, 2020 - Springer
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is a commonly utilized therapy in multiple medical
subspecialities, indicated for the management of various primary and secondary …

[HTML][HTML] Potential confounding of diagnosis of rabies in patients with recent receipt of intravenous immune globulin

NM Vora - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2018 - cdc.gov
The presence of a high concentration of serum Rabies lyssavirus neutralizing antibodies
(RLNAs) in a patient with an illness compatible with rabies and no history of rabies …

Positive test for antithyroglobulin antibodies due to administration of immunoglobulin replacement therapy in a patient with thyroid cancer

C Ogrin, BA Ford, SL Stauffer, MD Krasowski, AE Azar - Endocrine practice, 2015 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT Objective: Thyroglobulin (Tg) is used as a tumor marker to monitor differentiated
thyroid cancer progression and recurrence. However, Tg measured by standard …

[HTML][HTML] Misleading hepatitis B testing in the setting of intravenous immunoglobulin

CM Ilboudo, EM Guest, AM Ferguson, U Garg… - …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is commonly used for a wide range of diagnoses, by
multiple pediatric subspecialists. We report two cases of hepatitis B screening results post …

[PDF][PDF] Does intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in Guillain-Barré syndrome patients interfere with serological Zika detection?

A Karnam, E Stephen-Victor, M Das, L Magy… - Autoimmunity …, 2019 - Elsevier
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare neurological autoimmune disease that targets
peripheral nerves [1, 2]. The yearly new incidence of the disease is ranging from one to two …

Intravenous immunoglobulin infusion contributes to a high incidence of false reactive screen results for human T-lymphotropic virus

I Luo, P Bradhurst, R Chen - Pathology, 2022 - Elsevier
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) has been increasingly used to treat immunodeficiencies
and inflammatory disorders. However, IVIg has also been shown to affect a wide range of …

[PDF][PDF] Search for serological markers of infection in transfused patients: are the limitations of these assays always clear?

M De Paschale, V Sambri - Microbiologia Medica, 2016 - pagepressjournals.org
Editorial obtained from (poly) transfused patients when IgG are variably detected in one
samples from another. In these patients it is of outmost relevance to investigate the presence …