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SUBMITTER: Graham-Brown MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5045541 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Graham-Brown M P M MP Aljayyousi R R Baines R J RJ Burton J O JO Brunskill N J NJ Furness P P Topham P P
Oxford medical case reports 20161001 10
We report the case of a 40-year-old female transplant patient with undiagnosed ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) and renal allograft dysfunction who achieved disease remission with restoration of transplant function following induction therapy with rituximab. There are currently no trial data looking at the use of rituximab for induction of remission of renal transplant patients with AAV. Although recurrence of AAV following renal transplantation is rare, such patients have invariably had multipl ...[more]