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We report about the treatment of eight patients with Wegener’s granulomatosis and one patient with systemic pANCA-associated vasculitis with a single course of high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). In 5 of 9 patients (55%) this resulted in significant clinical improvement, in two patients a decrease of the ANCA-titre was seen.
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Richter, C., Schnabel, A., Csernok, E., Reinhold-Keller, E., Gross, W.L. (1993). Treatment of Wegener’s Granulomatosis with Intravenous Immunoglobulin. In: Gross, W.L. (eds) ANCA-Associated Vasculitides. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 336. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9182-2_88
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