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It is immuno globulins (antibodies collected from 10-12K people's blood that are given IV over a period of hours for different medical conditions (usually immuno -suppressed/compromised people or for auto immune diseases). For auto immune diseases having all the new antibodies often will trick the immune system into not attacking the body organ/tissue marked for destruction.
Intravenous gamma globulin.
@khali Here is a good page that describes IVig
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/intravenous-immune-globulin-ivig-beyond-the-basics