May early intervention with high dose intravenous immunoglobulin pose a potentially successful treatment for severe cases of tick-borne encephalitis?

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-288205
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.28820

Růžek, Daniel ; Dobler, Gerhard ; Niller, Hans Helmut

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Arthropod-borne viral encephalitis of diverse origins shows similar clinical symptoms, histopathology and magnetic resonance imaging, indicating that the patho mechanisms may be similar. There is no specific therapy to date. However, vaccination remains the best prophylaxis against a selected few. Regardless of these shortcomings, there are an increasing number of case reports that ...