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edited by Peter C. Dau, 371 pp with illus, $35, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1979.

Robert L. Rodnitzky, MD, Reviewer
Department of Neurology University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Iowa City, IA 52242

Arch Neurol. 1979;36(9):600.

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Advances in the elucidation of the etiopathogenesis of myasthenia gravis have come rapidly in the past half decade. The advent of therapeutic plasmapheresis stands out as a practical, clinical outgrowth of this enhanced understanding of the immunobiology of myasthenia. This new therapeutic modality and the immunologic studies leading to its inception have captured the fancy of both clinicians and investigators, so it is appropriate that knowledge of the state of the art be made available to as wide an audience as possible. That task has been effectively accomplished in this volume, which contains a series of papers presented at an international symposium on plasmapharesis and the immunobiology of myasthenia held in San Francisco, June 1978.

The book is divided into five parts, the first of which consists of ten papers dealing with the immunobiology of the acetylcholine receptor. Part 2 deals with thymectomy and thoracic duct drainage, their indications and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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