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Figure 1 . The changes of brain lesions in patient’s MR scan during treatment.
The abnormal signals could be found in axial fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequences. Patients’ first MRI showed diffuse and symmetric hyper-intense areas in the bilateral peri-ventricular white matter, basal ganglia and insula (A-C). Compared with first MR scan, the area of brain lesions expanded obviously before protein A immunoadsorptions treatment (D-F). After two sessions of protein A immunoadsorptions, FLAIR images of MRI decreased significantly area of lesions (G-I).
Table 1. Changes of blood immune indicators before and after immunoadsorption sessions.