|
KMID : 0388220140210040201
|
|
Journal of the Korean Rheumatism Association
2014 Volume.21 No. 4 p.201 ~ p.204
|
|
|
A Case of Rituximab Therapy in Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Refractory to Steroid Pulse Therapy
|
|
Yim Sang-Woo
Byon Chang-Kyoo
Park Jun-Yong
Lee Sang-Yeob
Chung Won-Tae
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Rituximab is a chimeric murine-human monoclonal anti-body that is directed against the specific B-cell CD20 anti-gen, which has recently been successfully used in active or refractory systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) manifes-tations, such as nephritis, thrombocytopenia, and vasculitis. We report a case of a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage of SLE refractory to steroid pulse therapy. The patient was treated successfully with rit-uximab as a part of the immunosuppressive regimen.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Rituximab, Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, Systemic lupus erythematosus
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|