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  2. Efgartigimod alfa - Wikipedia

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    Efgartigimod alfa, sold under the brand name Vyvgart, is a medication used to treat myasthenia gravis. [3] [4] Efgartigimod alfa is a neonatal Fc receptor blocker and is a new class of medication. [4] It is an antibody fragment that binds to the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn), preventing FcRn from recycling immunoglobulin G (IgG) back into the ...

  3. Immunoglobulin therapy - Wikipedia

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    Immunoglobulin therapy is the use of a mixture of antibodies (normal human immunoglobulin) to treat several health conditions. [13] [14] These conditions include primary immunodeficiency, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Kawasaki disease, certain cases of HIV/AIDS and measles, Guillain–Barré syndrome, and certain other infections when a ...

  4. Myasthenia gravis - Wikipedia

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    Myasthenia gravis affects 50 to 200 people per million. [3] [4] It is newly diagnosed in 3 to 30 people per million each year. [13] Diagnosis has become more common due to increased awareness. [13] Myasthenia gravis most commonly occurs in women under the age of 40 and in men over the age of 60. [1] [5] [14] It is uncommon in children. [1]

  5. Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug - Wikipedia

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    Although the use of the term DMARDs was first propagated in rheumatoid arthritis (hence their name), the term has come to pertain to many other diseases, such as Crohn's disease, lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, myasthenia gravis, sarcoidosis, and various others. [citation needed]

  6. Transient neonatal myasthenia gravis - Wikipedia

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    Pediatric myasthenia gravis has two other forms which should not be confused with TNMG. Juvenile myasthenia gravis (i.e., JMG) refers to cases of MG that occur in children before the age of 19. It has been diagnosed in children as young as 8 months of age but, unlike TNMG, has not been diagnosed in fetuses (i.e., 9 weeks or older unborn ...

  7. What to know about nervous system disease 'ataxia' - AOL

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    Myasthenia gravis is one of the rarest and most concerning muscular disorders. Here's why. How is ataxia treated? When ataxia is a symptom of an injury, medication or reversible medical condition ...

  8. Eculizumab - Wikipedia

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    Eculizumab, sold under the brand name Soliris among others, is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody used to treat paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, generalized myasthenia gravis, and neuromyelitis optica.

  9. Immunosuppressive drug - Wikipedia

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    Treat autoimmune diseases or diseases that are most likely of autoimmune origin (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, vitiligo, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, scleroderma, sarcoidosis, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, Crohn's ...