Neurology

Infectious Disease

Questions discussed in this category

Do you repeat a lumbar puncture in a patient living with HIV diagnosed with and treated for neurosyphilis and if so, when?

1 Answer available

Do you utilize post-vaccination IgG titers to detect common variable immunodeficiency in patients who are about to start or are actively on B cell depleting therapy?

2 Answers available

Is history of GBS a contraindication for all future flu vaccines?

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Does management of NMDA receptor encephalitis change in a patient with HIV/AIDS?

1 Answer available

Do patients on eculizumab or ravulizumab require repeat vaccination against meningococcal infection after a certain interval?

1 Answer available

Do you recommend continuous antibiotic prophylaxis for patients on complement inhibitors such as eculizumab?

Do you just use antibiotic prophylaxis if therapy is started prior to meningococcal vaccination?

3 Answers available

What is your approach to the treatment of PML-IRIS in patients with HIV who have progressed to AIDS?

1 Answer available

How do you approach the timing of COVID-19 vaccination for patients with multiple sclerosis on B-cell depleting therapies?

3 Answers available

When would you consider checking JC virus prior to initiating biologic therapy?

1 Answer available

Do you treat HIV/AIDS-associated CNS vasculitis with antiretrovirals alone or in combination with steroids?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Neurology, 2020 Jul 29

Effect of ocrelizumab on vaccine responses in patients with multiple sclerosis: The VELOCE study.

Cells, 2018 Dec 28

Ocrelizumab Depletes CD20⁺ T Cells in Multiple Sclerosis Patients.

Journal of neurovirology, 2018-06

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in rituximab-treated rheumatic diseases: a rare event.

Clin Microbiol Infect, 2018 Feb 07

ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) Consensus Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies: an infectious diseases perspective (Introduction).

Blood, 2020 Jun 18

Tocilizumab in patients with symptomatic Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus-associated multicentric Castleman disease.

Journal of translational internal medicine, 2019 Dec 31

Influenza Vaccination and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Reality or Fear.

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