Immunosuppressive treatment in neurology

1. Big picture

Immunosuppressive treatment in neurology is used when neurological disease is caused by an abnormal immune attack against the nervous system, neuromuscular junction, nerve roots, peripheral nerves, muscle, vessels, or CNS myelin.

The key exam sentence:

Immunosuppressive therapy is used in immune-mediated neurological diseases to stop inflammation, reduce relapses, prevent irreversible neurological damage, and treat life-threatening immune attacks.

Important neurological diseases where immunosuppression is used:

• multiple sclerosis relapses;
• neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder;
• myasthenia gravis;
• autoimmune encephalitis;
• CNS vasculitis;
• inflammatory