Improvement of Arterial Wall Lesions in Parallel with Decrease of Plasma Pentraxin-3 Levels in a Patient with Refractory Takayasu Arteritis after Treatment with Tocilizumab

A 19-year-old Japanese woman with active Takayasu arteritis despite multiple conventional immunosuppressive therapies with glucocorticoids in combination with intravenous cyclophosphamide, azathioprine, or infliximab with methotrexate and tacrolimus was successfully treated by switching from inflixi...

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Main Authors: Shiho Iwagaitsu, Taio Naniwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Rheumatology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4580967
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