Case Reports in Ophthalmology (Sep 2012)

Combined Infliximab and Rituximab in Necrotising Scleritis

  • Jiten Morarji,
  • Lavnish Joshi,
  • Oren Tomkins-Netzer,
  • Sue Lightman,
  • Simon R.J. Taylor

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000342842
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 3
pp. 286 – 290

Abstract

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We report a patient with necrotising scleritis in whom infliximab was used for short-term steroid-sparing while rituximab took effect. This enabled disease control without requiring an extended period of high-dose corticosteroid administration or the concurrent use of cyclophosphamide.

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