Intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIG is a pharmaceutical preparation of human antibodies, prepared by processing the blood of hundreds of blood donors to remove the antibodies from the rest of the blood, then further processing them to remove antibodies that are responsible for ridding the body of dead tissue. It is a type of gamma globulin and the type most often used in medicine. The remaining preparation contains only those antibodies that attack disease. Immunoglobulin has three primary uses in the treatment of disease:
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