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Originally Posted by canagirl
Hi all,
I've been trying to find literature saying that steroids and ivig help idiopathic sfn but I'm not having much luck. Anything that looks promising I can't access. I can only read the abstakt. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Anybody, have some articles that they have found that they would be willing to post then link to?
I'm trying to give my neuro proof so that she can't say " it only helps demyelination neuropathies" so the answer is no
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I don't think you are going to find much evidence for IVIG and idiopathic SFN in the scientific literature. You might get lucky and find a case study, but understand that it is considered a low level of evidence. Your neuro is going to want to see several journal articles with a higher level evidence, especially if he is a stickler.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0022268/
This systematic review pretty much says that the evidence that IVIG works for neuropathy was insufficient other than for conditions like MS or GBS (and a few other conditions as well). This is likely what your neuro was referring to.
You might try to sift through Cochine Review; doctors take opinions from this review very seriously.
http://www.cochrane.org/
As previously mentioned, Google Scholar is a great way to find full text journal articles.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?h...%2C50&as_sdtp=
Not only should you search pubmed, but you should search all NCBI databases.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/?...europathy+ivig
Some of the two most useful NCBI databases will likely be Pubmed Central and Pubmed Health. Learn to use the Advanced Search/Search Builder to optimize what you are looking for in any given database.