Monica Rydén-Aulin, Dimitrios Boumpas, Irene Bultink, Jose Luis Callejas Rubio, Luis Caminal-Montero, Antoni Castro, Agustín Colodro Ruiz, Andrea Doria, Thomas Dörner, Cristina Gonzalez-Echavarri, Elisa Gremese, Frederic A Houssiau, Tom Huizinga, Murat Inanç, David Isenberg, Annamaria Iuliano, Søren Jacobsen, Juan Jimenéz-Alonso, Lászlo Kovács, Xavier Mariette, Marta Mosca, Ola Nived, Joaquim Oristrell, Manuel Ramos-Casals, Javier Rascón, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Luis Sáez-Comet, Gonzalo Salvador Cervelló, Gian Domenico Sebastiani, Danilo Squatrito, Gabriella Szücs, Alexandre Voskuyl, Ronald van Vollenhoven
OBJECTIVES: Rituximab (RTX) is a biological treatment used off-label in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This survey aimed to investigate the off-label use of RTX in Europe and compare the characteristics of patients receiving RTX with those receiving conventional therapy. METHODS: Data on patients with SLE receiving RTX were taken from the International Registry for Biologics in SLE retrospective registry and complemented with data on patients with SLE treated with conventional therapy...
2016: Lupus Science & Medicine