Novel use of rituximab in hypersensitivity pneumonitis refractory to conventional treatment

Thorax

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 780-781

  Lota, Harpreet K ^a   Keir, Gregory J ^a   Hansell, David M ^a   Nicholson, Andrew G ^a   Maher, Toby M ^a   Wells, Athol U ^a   Renzoni, Elisabetta A ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CD20 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COUGHING; DETERIORATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS; INTERSTITIAL FIBROSIS;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; ANTIGENS, CD20; BIOPSY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 84879974781     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203265     Document Type: Article

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