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SUBMITTER: Rolfes L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6832170 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rolfes Leoni L Pfeuffer Steffen S Ruck Tobias T Melzer Nico N Pawlitzki Marc M Heming Michael M Brand Marcus M Wiendl Heinz H Meuth Sven G SG
Journal of clinical medicine 20191004 10
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most abundant inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system. Despite recent advances in its long-term immunomodulatory treatment, MS patients still suffer from relapses, significantly contributing to disability accrual. In recent years, apheresis procedures such as therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) and immunoadsorption (IA) have been recognized as two options for treating MS relapses, that do not respond to standard treatment with corticosteroid ...[more]