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Magnate
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Heah!
Posts: 2,921
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Magnate
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Heah!
Posts: 2,921
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On the good side, in all the cases of PML, of those who had blood samples available from prior to or during their treatment with Tysabri, the blood samples were tested with the new assay and every one of them tested positive for JC antibodies but one. That person had been treated with plasmapheresis (PLEX) and showed no evidence of JC antibodies. It is surmised that the PLEX treatments removed the antibodies. A new sample was tested post PLEX and also tested positive.
Those results bode well for the assay being accepted as a standard for quantifying positive/negative exposure to the JC virus and the risk of PML.
(I hope I said that right!)
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I know the sound the river makes, by dawn, by night, by day. But can it stay me through tomorrows that find me far away?
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I have this mental picture in my mind of you all, shaking bones and bells and charms, muttering prayers and voodoo curses, dancing around in a circle of salt, with leetle glasses and tiny bottles of cheer in the middle...myyyyyy friends!
diagnosed 09/03/2004
scheduled to start Tysabri 03/05
Tysabri withdrawn from market 02/28/05
Copaxone 05/05-12/06
Tysabri returned to market 06/05/06
Found a new neuro 04/07
Tysabri 05/25/07-present
Medical Marijuana legally 12/03/09
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Negative for JC virus antibodies!
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I'm doing alright and making good grades,
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!
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