The clinical activity of rituximab, a chimeric monoclonal antibody which binds to the CD20
antigen, was evaluated as a single first-line therapy for patients with follicular non-Hodgkin …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the response to treatment in a large cohort of patients with systemic
lupus erythematosus (SLE) associated with autoimmune thrombocytopenia. METHODS: …

Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous disease treated with anti-CD20-based
immuno-chemotherapy (R-CHOP). We identified that low levels of GAPDH predict a …

Caloric restriction (CR) is proposed to decrease tumorigenesis through a variety of
mechanisms including effects on glycolysis. However, the understanding of how CR affects the …

Chronic neutrophilic leukemia is an uncommon myeloproliferative disorder. We report a
new case that fulfills the clinical and biologic criteria for such a diagnosis. The hematologic …

Discussion As B dermatitidis was not recovered elsewhere than in the brain abscess, we
cannot assert that this patient had a multifocal form. Thus, assuming an isolated cerebral site, it …

Objective TNF-alpha antagonists have changed the outcome of various chronic inflammatory
diseases. Their use has spread widely and many patients receive those treatments for …

Discussion Although 61 9 infection is not a common cause of anaemia in patients with AIDS,
this patient, like those of Mitchell and colleagues (2) and of Frickhofen et al.(3), highlights …

Primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (PHO), or pachydermoperiostosis, is characterized
by a clinical association including digital clubbing, periostosis and pachydermia. SLCO2A1 …

Recent studies [1, 2] showed that patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) with human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection may benefit from an intensive …