Complement C2 deficiency disarranging innate and adaptive humoral immune responses in a pediatric patient: treatment with rituximab

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011 Mar;63(3):454-9. doi: 10.1002/acr.20361.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adaptive Immunity / drug effects*
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived / therapeutic use*
  • B-Lymphocytes / drug effects
  • B-Lymphocytes / immunology
  • Biopsy
  • Child, Preschool
  • Complement C2 / deficiency*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunity, Humoral / drug effects*
  • Immunity, Innate / drug effects*
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / diagnosis
  • Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / drug therapy*
  • Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / immunology
  • Immunologic Factors / therapeutic use*
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / diagnosis
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / drug therapy*
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / immunology
  • Rituximab
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived
  • Complement C2
  • Immunologic Factors
  • Rituximab