id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-018840-ts2g1ux7 Katragkou, Aspasia Role of Immunoglobulin Therapy to Prevent and Treat Infections 2018-06-19 .txt text/plain 6703 329 32 While the main clinical applications of immunoglobulin therapy concern their use as replacement for patients with primary immunodeficiencies, or as treatment for autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, their role in infectious disease is limited largely to viral and toxin neutralization and replacement therapy in patients with immunoglobulin deficiencies. The first clinical trial, which evaluated the effect of IgMA-enriched immunoglobulin preparation (7.8 g IgM, 7.8 g IgA, and 49.4 g IgG), which have shown to contain superior antibody content against bacterial lipopolysaccharides, in an appreciable number of neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies and sepsis or septic shock, showed that immunoglobulins had no beneficial effects [51] . A controlled trial of long-term administration of intravenous immunoglobulin to prevent late infection and chronic graft-vs.-host disease after marrow transplantation: clinical outcome and effect on subsequent immune recovery ./cache/cord-018840-ts2g1ux7.txt ./txt/cord-018840-ts2g1ux7.txt