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    What's the Best Way to Treat Immune-mediated Cerebellar Ataxias?

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    What's the Best Way to Treat Immune-mediated Cerebellar Ataxias? - Can researchers improve treatment for immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias? Photo: CC--Marco Bellucci
    Caption: Can researchers improve treatment for immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias? Photo: CC--Marco Bellucci

    Celiac.com 12/28/2015 - Immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias include gluten ataxia, paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration, GAD antibody associated cerebellar ataxia, and Hashimoto's encephalopathy.

    Photo: CC--Marco BellucciDespite the identification of an increasing number of immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias, there is no proposed standardized therapy.

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    Recently, a research team set out to develop guidelines for treatment of immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias.

    The research team included H. Mitoma, M. Hadjivassiliou, and J. Honnorat. They are variously associated with the Department of Medical Education at Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan; the Academic Department of Neurosciences at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK; the University Lyon 1; INSERM, UMR-S1028, CNRS, UMR-5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Neuro-Oncology and Neuro-Inflammation Team, 7; and the National Reference Centre for Paraneoplastic Neurological Diseases, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital neurologique in Bron, France.

    For their study, the team evaluated the efficacies of immunotherapies in reported cases using a common scale of daily activity.

    Their resulting analysis focuses on the importance of removing autoimmune triggers (e.g., gluten or cancer), evaluating immunotherapy (e.g., corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulin, immunosuppressants), and adjusting according to each sub-type.

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