Immunotherapy

Immunotherapies are treatments, where the immune system is affected. This stimulatory, modulating, or suppressing substituting ( replacing ) procedures are, depending on the condition for use.

• Active vaccination and
• The administration of immunostimulants to activate a weakened immune system in the context of an active non-specific immunotherapy in cancer patients ( see main article cancer immunotherapy )

• Autoimmune diseases,
• Following organ transplantation;
• Allergies (anaphylaxis ) and

• Passive immunization with immunoglobulin (tetanus, botulism, Rh incompatibility, and more. ) and
• Gift of monoclonal antibodies in Crohn's disease ( infliximab )
• PTCA ( platelet inhibitor abciximab ) or
• Specific immunotherapy in cancer patients, in combination with the antibody toxins (eg saporin ) called immunotoxins.

• Immunotherapy for allergies
• Immunoadsorption for Removal of autoantibodies and immune complexes in autoimmune diseases or antibody-mediated graft rejection

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• Roche Lexikon Medizin [Electronic resource ] 5th edition; Elsevier GmbH Urban & Fischer Verlag; Munich / Jena 2003; ISBN 3-437-15072-3; Online version keyword: Immunotherapy

• Immunology
• Therapeutic procedures in hematology and oncology