Association of anti-CD20 antibody-rituximab and infection: A case report

Abstract

Son yıllarda literatürde anti-CD20 antikoru (rituksimab) tedavisi sonrası gelişen ciddi viral, mikobakteriyel ve fungal infeksiyonlar bildirilmektedir. Şimdiye kadar rituksimab ilişkili panoftalmit bildirilmemiş olup, CHOP-R tedavisi alan lenfomalı bir olguda ölümle sonlanan panoftalmit tablosu nedeni ile konuya dikkat çekilmesi ve rituksimab tedavileri ile infeksiyon ilişkisinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır.In recent years, serious viral, mycobacterial and fungal infection cases which developed after anti-CD20 antibodies (rituximab) have been published. Upto now there was no panophtalmitis case associated with rituximab. In this paper we aimed to evaluate the relationship between rituximab treatments and infections, and attract attention to the issue with a panophtalmitis case with lymphoma who was on CHOP-R treatment and ended up with death

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