lupus nephritis and rituximab Archives

Abstract Number: 2932 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
A Retrospective Observational Study of Patients with Lupus Nephritis Treated with Rituximab in Combination with Cyclophosphamide
Nídia Oliveira¹, Mónica Ibañez², Natalia Ciang³ and David A. Isenberg⁴, ¹Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal, London, United Kingdom, ²Rheumatology Department, Hospital Son Llàtzer, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, London, United Kingdom, ³Rheumatology Department, Queen Eliazbeth Hospital, Hong Kong, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Rayne Institute, Centre for Rheumatology Research, UCL Division of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is a major cause of morbidity. Many patients with refractory disease can not tolerate conventional immunosuppressive therapy. The aims of this…
Abstract Number: 588 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Efficacy Of Rituximab In Patients With Refractory Lupus Nephritis, a Post-Hoc Analysis From Phase II Trial In Japan
Yoshiya Tanaka¹, Kazuhiko Yamamoto², Tsutomu Takeuchi³, Nobuyuki Miyasaka⁴, Takayuki Sumida⁵, Tsuneyo Mimori⁶, Takao Koike⁷ and Kazuhiro Endo⁸, ¹The First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, Kitakyushu, Japan, ²Department of Allergy and Rhaumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, ⁶Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ⁷Rheumatology, NTT Sapporo Medical Center, Sapporo, Japan, ⁸Clinical Development, Zenyaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: B-cell depletion therapy by rituximab has been reported to be useful for treatment of lupus nephritis (LN) in many observational uncontrolled studies, however, placebo-controlled…

Abstracts tagged "lupus nephritis and rituximab"

A Retrospective Observational Study of Patients with Lupus Nephritis Treated with Rituximab in Combination with Cyclophosphamide

Efficacy Of Rituximab In Patients With Refractory Lupus Nephritis, a Post-Hoc Analysis From Phase II Trial In Japan