Retrospective review of tocilizumab, rituximab, and azathioprine in chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy
New Clue Found in Stubborn Eye Inflammation
This retrospective analysis reviews tocilizumab, rituximab, and azathioprine use in 60 patients with chronic relapsing inflammatory optic ne…
Knowing a patient's blood marker status can guide doctors to the right therapy to stop recurring eye inflammation.
Systematic review of immunosuppression for SLE-associated intestinal pseudo-obstruction
SLE Can Shut Down the Gut — But It Might Be Reversible
This review synthesized 43 cases of SLE-associated intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
Lupus can paralyze the gut without a blockage, but early treatment with immunosuppressives often reverses this dangerous complication.
Scoping review synthesizes immunosuppressive strategies and outcomes in solid organ transplantation
New Drug Strategies Aim to Stop Your Body From Rejecting a Transplant
This scoping review examines immunosuppressive strategies for solid organ transplant patients, including conventional, biologic, and emergin…
New drug strategies aim to stop your body from attacking a new organ, protecting transplants longer while reducing dangerous side effects fr…
Switching therapy after rituximab resistance in AQP4-IgG+ NMOSD shows variable relapse outcomes
New Hope for Tough-to-Treat Nerve Disorder
This single-center, retrospective case series of 10 adults with AQP4-IgG+ NMOSD who were resistant to rituximab evaluated switching therapy.
Patients with a rare nerve disease who stopped responding to standard treatment found relief after switching to new therapies that prevented…
Rituximab pharmacokinetics vary widely in membranous nephropathy, minimal change disease, and lupus nephritis patients
Rituximab Works — But Only If Your Body Keeps Enough of It
This review examined pharmacokinetic profiling of rituximab in patients with glomerular diseases.
Rituximab helps kidney disease patients only if their bodies keep enough of it in the blood, since some people clear the drug too fast and g…
Phase 1b trial of intravenous B001 shows favorable safety in aquaporin-4-positive NMOSD patients
A New MS-Like Disease Drug Passes Its First Human Safety Test
This Phase 1b randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluated intravenous B001 in 22 patients with aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin G…
A new drug for a rare nerve disease that can cause blindness and paralysis passed its first human safety test with no severe side effects se…
Meta-analysis of novel therapies for follicular lymphoma progression within 24 months shows high response rates
New treatments show high response rates for advanced follicular lymphoma patients
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated outcomes for patients with follicular lymphoma experiencing disease progression within 24…
New powerful medicines help 91% of advanced follicular lymphoma patients whose disease returned quickly after treatment.
BR regimen shows survival outcomes in newly diagnosed Waldenstroms Macroglobulinemia patients
A Rare Blood Cancer With an 8-Year Survival: What Real-World Data Shows
This single-center retrospective analysis evaluated 89 newly diagnosed Waldenstroms Macroglobulinemia patients treated with the BR regimen.
New real-world data shows patients with the rare blood cancer Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia live a median of over 8 years after diagnosis.
Narrative review outlines clinical framework for managing primary Sjögren's disease with interstitial lung disease
New Hope for Sjögren's Patients with Lung Scarring
A narrative review synthesizes evidence on managing primary Sjögren's disease with interstitial lung disease, highlighting a pragmatic clini…
Lung scarring in Sjögren's disease can be deadly, but new strategies targeting specific disease patterns offer a path forward for patients.
RCD chemotherapy in Waldenström macroglobulinemia with AL amyloidosis led to rapid progression and death
Rare Blood Cancer Causes Fast Kidney Failure
This case report and literature review describes a 75-year-old female with Waldenström macroglobulinemia and AL lambda-type amyloid nephropa…
When a rare blood cancer attacks the kidneys, standard treatments often fail to stop the fast progression to organ failure.
Rituximab exposure is associated with serum sickness in patients with multiple sclerosis, nephrotic syndrome, or immune thrombocytopenia
Can taking Rituximab cause a severe allergic reaction that returns if you take it again?
This retrospective review analyzed 39 published case reports of patients with rituximab-induced serum sickness (RISS).
Taking Rituximab can trigger a delayed allergic reaction that returns in most patients if the drug is given again, so doctors must use extre…
Therapeutic plasma exchange in pediatric autoimmune diffuse alveolar hemorrhage shows 5 of 6 survival
Kids' Lungs Bleeding: Early Blood Swap Saves Lives
A retrospective cohort study of 6 pediatric patients with autoimmune diffuse alveolar hemorrhage requiring intensive care found that therape…
Early blood swaps saved six critically ill children with autoimmune lung bleeding, avoiding death in all cases treated with this urgent ther…