CFS & IV Immunoglobulin

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[CO-CURE] RES: Persistent Parvovirus-Associated Chronic Fatigue

Treated With High Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin

> Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2005 Mar;24(3):272-274. Related Articles, Links

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> PERSISTENT PARVOVIRUS-ASSOCIATED CHRONIC FATIGUE TREATED WITH HIGH DOSE

> INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN.

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> McGhee SA, Kaska B, Liebhaber M, Stiehm ER.

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> From the *Department of Pediatrics, Geffen School of Medicine at

UCLA,

> and the daggerSanta Barbara Medical Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; and the

> double daggerDepartment of Biology, University of California, Irvine,

> Irvine, CA.

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> We report a 16-year-old boy with no evidence of immunodeficiency who had a

> 2-year history of chronic fatigue, low grade fever and slapped-cheek rash

> associated with chronic parvovirus B19 viremia. Prolonged intravenous

> immunoglobulin therapy resulted in resolution of his symptoms and viremia.

> Intravenous immunoglobulin may be useful in the resolution of parvovirus

> viremia regardless of immune status.

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> PMID: 15750469 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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> [background from Tom: One can read a full article of similar research by a

> different team, entitled

> " Successful Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy in 3 Cases of Parvovirus

> B19Associated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome " at

> http://tinyurl.com/6wshm

> i.e.

>

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v36n9/30340/30340.html

> ]

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