RE: treating the auto antibodies-from the paper in prior post..
For treatment, apheresis has proven to be the gentlest and most effective method, before the administration of drugs such as steroids, immunoglobulins and rituximab. The methods plasmapheresis (exchange of blood plasma) and immunoadsorption (as we use it in the BIOLOGICUM+ with the INUSpherese® apheresis) are explicitly recommended by the neurology department of the Charité in such cases. The earlier apheresis therapy begins, the more promising it is.
Overall, a growing number of dementia-causing antibodies are being identified. Apheresis is therapeutically one of the first line procedures for this diagnosis.