Rituximab treatment in a case of antisynthetase syndrome with severe interstitial lung disease and acute respiratory failure

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 183-188

  Zappa, Maria Cristina ^a   Trequattrini, Tiziana ^a   Mattioli, Francesco ^a   Rivitti, Rosario ^a   Vigliarolo, Rossana ^a   Marcoccia, Antonella ^a   D'Arcangelo, Giovanni ^a  

^a SANDRO PERTINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Immunology; Interstitial lung disease; Rituximab

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; JO 1 ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; GLUCOCORTICOID; RO ANTIBODY;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTISYNTHETASE SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SYNOVITIS; CAPILLAROSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; MIDDLE AGED; POLYARTHRITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; REMISSION;

EID: 80054018299     PISSN: 1828695X     EISSN: 20496958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-6-3-183     Document Type: Article

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