Fetal outcomes after rituximab exposure in women with autoimmune vasculitis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2051-2053

  Pendergraft III, William F ^a,b   McGrath, Martina M ^a,b   Murphy, Andrew P ^b   Murphy, Patrick ^b   Laliberte, Karen A ^b   Greene, Michael F ^b   Niles, John L ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CD20 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; B LYMPHOCYTE; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

AUTOIMMUNITY; B CELLS; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887484168     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203833     Document Type: Letter

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