... are based on practice guidelines. We herein present, for the first time, 4 cases of patients with biopsy-proven COP who did not respond to corticosteroids but benefited from rituximab therapy. This report consists of a retrospective case series of patients who experienced steroid-resistant, biopsy-proven...

.... Recently, rituximab (RTX), a B cell-targeted therapy, has been reported to be effective for life-threatening autoimmune diseases. We describe a SLE patient who presented with acute respiratory failure due to DAH without other active organ involvement. This condition was dramatically improved with RTX...

... was treated with a combination of rituximab and cyclophosphamide, which led to a dramatic improvement in her clinical condition and respiratory function tests. The increase in vital capacity was one of the highest among 35 published cases of SLS. Thus, restoring a near-normal lung function is an achievable...

...Adriano R. Tonelli; Richard Lottenberg; Robert W. Allan; P.S. Sriram Rituximab is a chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody used to treat CD20+ non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Although pulmonary adverse reactions such as cough, rhinitis, bronchospasm, dyspnea and sinusitis are relatively common, other...

.... She was initially treated with intravenous methylprednisolone and cyclophosphamide pulses. She required mechanical ventilation due to a lack of responsiveness and her disease was considered refractory to conventional treatment. Rituximab was administered and this was followed by clinical improvement...

...Gustavo A. Heresi; Carol F. Farver; James K. Stoller The use of rituximab has been uncommonly associated with delayed pulmonary toxicity. We present a case of interstitial pneumonitis and diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, which represents the second such case reported in the literature. 3 01 2007...