Cerebral toxoplasmosis after rituximab for pemphigus vulgaris
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Rituximab therapy improves recalcitrant Pemphigus vulgaris
Pemphigus is a severe life-threatening blistering disease associated with autoantibodies against cell adhesion proteins desmogleins 1 and 3. Patients with severe pemphigus commonly show high rates of relapse after conventional immunosuppressive therapy. The newly developed drug Rituximab showed impressing promises in the treatment of refractory pemphigus vulgaris (PV). In the present study the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAAD Case Reports
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2352-5126
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2019.10.015