Rituximab in small-vessel vasculitis can result in long-lasting control of disease, for 18 months or more, from a single course of treatment. Suppression of the interleukin-6 pathway
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National Institute of Health Research Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Raashid Luqmani, DM, FRCP, Professor Please address correspondence to: Prof. Raashid Luqmani, NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford, Windmill Road, Oxford OX3 7HE, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected] Received and accepted on August 28, 2013. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2013; 31 (Suppl. 78): S93-S97. © Copyright CliniCal and ExpErimEntal rhEumatology 2013.
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