Successful treatment of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA; Formerly ChurgStrauss syndrome) with rituximab in a case refractory to glucocorticoids, cyclophosphamide, and IVIG

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 685-687

  Umezawa, Natsuka ^a   Kohsaka, Hitoshi ^a   Nanki, Toshihiro ^a   Watanabe, Kaori ^a   Tanaka, Michi ^a   Shane, Peter Y ^a   Miyasaka, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis; IVIG; Rituximab

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; DYSPHAGIA; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMATOSIS WITH POLYANGIITIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE PALSY; LIMB WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901934296     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14397595.2013.874734     Document Type: Article

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