Hemodynamic effects of immunoadsorption and subsequent immunoglobulin substitution in dilated cardiomyopathy

Report of the 1995 World Health Organization/International Society and Federation of Cardiology Task Force on the Definition and Classification of Cardiomyopathies

1996 • 3,392 citations

Proinflammatory cytokine levels in patients with depressed left ventricular ejection fraction: A report from the studies of left ventricular dysfunction (SOLVD)

1996 • 1,203 citations

Tumor Necrosis Factor-α and Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptors in the Failing Human Heart

1996 • 993 citations

Cellular basis for the negative inotropic effects of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in the adult mammalian heart.

1993 • 708 citations

Manipulating the Immune System with Immune Globulin

1992 • 649 citations

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1992 • 601 citations

Tumor Necrosis Factor Soluble Receptors in Patients With Various Degrees of Congestive Heart Failure

1995 • 534 citations

Increased circulating cytokines in patients with myocarditis and cardiomyopathy.

1994 • 525 citations

Weaning From Mechanical Cardiac Support in Patients With Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

1997 • 369 citations

Autoimmunity in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Characterization of antibodies against the beta 1-adrenoceptor with positive chronotropic effect.

1994 • 348 citations

Autoantibodies against beta-adrenoceptors in human idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

1989 • 337 citations

Detection of enterovirus RNA in myocardial biopsies from patients with myocarditis and cardiomyopathy using gene amplification by polymerase chain reaction.

1990 • 316 citations

Identification of alpha- and beta-cardiac myosin heavy chain isoforms as major autoantigens in dilated cardiomyopathy.

1992 • 308 citations

HIGH-DOSE VERSUS LOW-DOSE INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN IN HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINAEMIA AND CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE

1987 • 285 citations

Intravenous Immune Globulin in the Therapy of Myocarditis and Acute Cardiomyopathy

1997 • 240 citations

Antibodies to ADP-ATP carrier--an autoantigen in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy--impair cardiac function.

1990 • 195 citations

Short-term Hemodynamic Effects of Immunoadsorption in Dilated Cardiomyopathy

1997 • 168 citations

Peptides Derived from Cardiovascular G-protein-coupled Receptors Induce Morphological Cardiomyopathic Changes in Immunized Rabbits

1997 • 164 citations

Antibody-mediated autoimmune myocarditis depends on genetically determined target organ sensitivity.

1995 • 155 citations

High-Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin in the Management of Myasthenia Gravis

1986 • 148 citations

Experience with protein A-immunoadsorption in treatment-resistant adult immune thrombocytopenic purpura

1992 • 140 citations

Effects of the serum gamma globulin fraction of patients with allergic asthma and dilated cardiomyopathy on chronotropic beta adrenoceptor function in cultured neonatal rat heart myocytes.

1987 • 128 citations

Treatment of myasthenia gravis by immunoadsorption of plasma

1995 • 116 citations

Treatment of adult chronic autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura with repeated high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin

1993 • 110 citations

Soluble Interleukin-2 Receptor Levels in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy

1995 • 92 citations

The Clinical Relevance of Circulating Tumor Necrosis Factor-α in Acute Decompensated Chronic Heart Failure Without Cachexia

1996 • 77 citations

Treatment of adult chronic autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura with repeated high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin

1993 • 73 citations

Immunohistochemistry in dilated cardiomyopathy

1995 • 65 citations

A Synthetic Peptide Corresponding to the Second Extracellular Loop of the Human M2 Acetylcholine Receptor Induces Pharmacological and Morphological Changes in Cardiomyocytes by Active Immunization after 6 Months in Rabbits

1996 • 50 citations

Transfer of human myocarditis into severe combined immunodeficiency mice.

1994 • 50 citations

Transfer of human myocarditis into severe combined immunodeficiency mice.

1994 • 36 citations

High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin in the treatment of Guillain-Barr� syndrome: a preliminary open study

1993 • 31 citations

Ability to remove immunoglobulins and anti-ganglioside antibodies by plasma exchange, double-filtration plasmapheresis and immunoadsorption

1998 • 25 citations