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ArticleCase reports in gastroenterology2013

A case of primary biliary cirrhosis that progressed rapidly after treatment involving rituximab.

Kazuto Tajiri, Koichi Tsuneyama, Takahiro Miyazono, Kengo Kawai, Masami Minemura, Toshiro Sugiyama

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Article in Case reports in gastroenterology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. [Advances in the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2017
    Article
  4. New therapies for primary biliary cirrhosis.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2015
    Review
  5. DLBCL developed into fatal liver failure during rituximab-containing chemotherapy.Journal of clinical and experimental hematopathology : JCEH
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kazuto TajiriThe Third Department of Internal Medicine, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama, Japan.
Koichi Tsuneyama
Takahiro Miyazono
Kengo Kawai
Masami Minemura
Toshiro Sugiyama
Toyama University Hospital · JPUniversity of Toyama · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a progressive liver disease for which limited therapies are recommended. Rituximab, an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody, is expected to be a useful therapeutic regimen for PBC. Previous studies indicated biochemical and immunological improvement in PBC after rituximab treatment. Although rituximab shows therapeutic potential for PBC, few cases have been reported and histological improvement and long-term outcome remain uncertain. Here, we report a case of PBC in a 66-year-old Japanese female patient who presented with a gastric lymphoma and who had been treated with a regimen containing rituximab for incidental malignant lymphoma. She showed biochemical and immunological improvements, and liver histology before and after rituximab treatment confirmed a decrease in liver inflammation. However, she developed liver cirrhosis a short time after rituximab treatment without biochemical or immunological worsening. Rituximab treatment for PBC might be considered and careful observation is required after treatment.

Indexed as

Primary biliary cirrhosisRituximabTransforming growth factor beta

Identifiers

PMID23687488
PMCPMC3656669
OpenAlexW2087680102

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