Thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with TAFRO syndrome

TAFRO syndrome have been proposed as a rare variant of Castleman's disease. This article reports a case of a 56-year-old man with TAFRO syndrome who was successfully treated with thalidomide in spite of the refractoriness to prednisolone and tocilizumab. Thalidomide may be one of the treatment...

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Autores principales: Tatekawa, Shotaro, Umemura, Koji, Fukuyama, Ryuichi, Kohno, Akio, Taniwaki, Masafumi, Kuroda, Junya, Morishita, Yoshihisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26185651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.284
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author Tatekawa, Shotaro
Umemura, Koji
Fukuyama, Ryuichi
Kohno, Akio
Taniwaki, Masafumi
Kuroda, Junya
Morishita, Yoshihisa
author_facet Tatekawa, Shotaro
Umemura, Koji
Fukuyama, Ryuichi
Kohno, Akio
Taniwaki, Masafumi
Kuroda, Junya
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description TAFRO syndrome have been proposed as a rare variant of Castleman's disease. This article reports a case of a 56-year-old man with TAFRO syndrome who was successfully treated with thalidomide in spite of the refractoriness to prednisolone and tocilizumab. Thalidomide may be one of the treatment options for TAFRO syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-44988652015-07-16 Thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with TAFRO syndrome Tatekawa, Shotaro Umemura, Koji Fukuyama, Ryuichi Kohno, Akio Taniwaki, Masafumi Kuroda, Junya Morishita, Yoshihisa Clin Case Rep Case Reports TAFRO syndrome have been proposed as a rare variant of Castleman's disease. This article reports a case of a 56-year-old man with TAFRO syndrome who was successfully treated with thalidomide in spite of the refractoriness to prednisolone and tocilizumab. Thalidomide may be one of the treatment options for TAFRO syndrome. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015-06 2015-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4498865/ /pubmed/26185651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.284 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with TAFRO syndrome
title Thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with TAFRO syndrome
title_full Thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with TAFRO syndrome
title_fullStr Thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with TAFRO syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with TAFRO syndrome
title_short Thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with TAFRO syndrome
title_sort thalidomide for tocilizumab-resistant ascites with tafro syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26185651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.284
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