Successful treatment of digital tip necrosis in rheumatoid vasculitis with anti-CD20 antibody rituximab.

Mariusz Korkosz, Jarosław Królczyk, Dorota Telesińska-Jasiówka, Tomasz Grodzicki

Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, College of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. mariusz.korkosz@mp.pl

Journal of clinical rheumatology : practical reports on rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases 2013 Jan

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We report a successful treatment with rituximab in the case of rheumatoid vasculitis causing digital tips necrosis in exacerbated rheumatoid arthritis. The vasculitis lesions did not respond completely to intravenous methylprednisolone and cyclophosphamide but responded on rituximab treatment. Deep necrosis of a digital tip resolved entirely after completing a course of rituximab.

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Mariusz Korkosz, Jarosław Królczyk, Dorota Telesińska-Jasiówka, Tomasz Grodzicki. Successful treatment of digital tip necrosis in rheumatoid vasculitis with anti-CD20 antibody rituximab. Journal of clinical rheumatology : practical reports on rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases. 2013 Jan;19(1):43-5