Use of rituximab as a salvage therapy for HIV-associated multicentric Castleman disease
- 10 December 2005
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Springer Nature in Annals of Hematology
- Vol. 85 (3), 185-187
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-005-0038-4
Abstract
Several approved therapies for multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) cannot be uniformly applied due to intolerable side effects. There is also a high percentage of recurrence of this disease despite treatment. Rituximab may be effective in controlling MCD in a subset of patients. This paper includes a brief case report and an extensive review of previously published cases. We observed an aggravation of concomitant cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma, and hypothesize that rituximab could have exacerbated it.Keywords
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