The Mayo Clinic has a summary of treatment options >here

The page discusses managing of acute attacks, preventing future attacks, the use of steroids, immune suppressants and plasma exchange.

Research suggests that the use of plasma exchange to reduce the concentration of antibodies in the blood works in approximately 40 percent of patients who have severe inflammatory demyelinating diseases.

Steve Ornburn 877 days ago

Plasma exchange is thought to work because it filters out the agents that attack the nervous system.

Researchers at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee report that plasma exchange therapy or PLEX dramatically improves the health of multiple sclerosis patients who fail to respond to conventional therapies.

For more about plasma exchange, see the April 30, 2009 article in Medical News Today, >here<.

Steve Ornburn 877 days ago

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Bill 796 days ago