How to Use intravenous immunoglobulin in a Sentence

intravenous immunoglobulin

noun

• The patient got several doses of intravenous immunoglobulin over the next few days.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• On the 35th day after his symptoms started, doctors at Yale New Haven Hospital infused him with intravenous immunoglobulin.
  — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
• The drug, intravenous immunoglobulin, is for people with weakened immune systems, such as transplant patients.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• Patients should be given anti-clotting drugs, but not heparin, and infusions of a blood product called intravenous immunoglobulin may replace the depleted platelets.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• Doctors treat children with blood thinners, steroids and intravenous immunoglobulin.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2022
• Isolating the cause has allowed scientists to identify how to treat patients who have developed the blot clots, by giving them intravenous immunoglobulin, which targets the antibody, and blood thinners.
  — Rachel Sandler, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• These include intravenous immunoglobulin – a blood product with antibodies that suppresses the immune response – aspirin and steroids, which are also used to treat Kawasaki disease.
  — Ritu Banerjee, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
• Patients with more severe symptoms are often prescribed intravenous immunoglobulin, an infusion that has been shown to reduce people's stiffness and sensitivity to noise, touch and stress.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• The diagnosis was then followed by a night of intravenous immunoglobulin, a treatment for patients with antibody deficiencies.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2022
• Children typically need medication to stabilize their blood pressure as well as steroids and intravenous immunoglobulin, part of blood plasma that has antibodies in it to treat infection, to protect their hearts from inflammation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• The study treatment is called anti-coronavirus hyperimmune intravenous immunoglobulin, or hIVIG, and is being developed for the trial through a partnership of four pharmaceutical companies.
  — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• Padmanabhan discovered that high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin, often called IVIG, can help treat immune reactions.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
• He was discharged at the end of July after trying almost every therapy: antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, convalescent plasma and intravenous immunoglobulin.
  — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2020
• Yale Medicine says that doctors can prescribe medications including sedatives, muscle relaxants, and steroids; immunotherapies such as intravenous immunoglobulin and plasmapheresis; and other modalities like physical, occupational, and aqua therapy.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024