Improvement of Alveolar Hemorrhaging in an Elderly and Renally Impaired Patient with Relapsing Anti-neutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibody-associated Vasculitis by Single Infusion of Rituximab

Rituximab (RTX) has become a therapeutic option for inducing remission of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated vasculitis (AAV). However, the optimum dosage of RTX to induce remission of AAV and reduce adverse events, such as infection, remains unclear. We herein report an elderly and...

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Autores principales: Oda, Keiko, Ishikawa, Eiji, Ito, Takayasu, Mizoguchi, Shoko, Hirabayashi, Yosuke, Suzuki, Yasuo, Haruki, Ayumi, Fujimoto, Mika, Murata, Tomohiro, Katayama, Kan, Onishi, Takahiro, Ito, Masaaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6287994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29984747
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.0936-18

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