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2. Rituximab - Wikipedia

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   Rituximab, sold under the brand name Rituxan among others, is a monoclonal antibody medication used to treat certain autoimmune diseases and types of cancer. [18] It is used for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (in children and adults, but not recommended in elderly patients), rheumatoid arthritis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura ...

3. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura - Wikipedia

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   Thrombopoietin receptor agonists exhibited the greatest success so far in treating patients with refractory ITP. [37] Side effects of thrombopoietin receptor agonists include headache, joint or muscle pain, dizziness, nausea or vomiting, and an increased risk of blood clots. [31]

4. Fostamatinib - Wikipedia

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   Fostamatinib is a drug used to treat adults with low platelet count due to chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) when a prior treatment for ITP has not worked well enough. Chronic immune thrombocytopenia is an autoimmune bleeding disorder where the blood doesn't clot as it should because of a low platelet count.

5. Immunoglobulin therapy - Wikipedia

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   Immunoglobulin therapy is the use of a mixture of antibodies (normal human immunoglobulin) to treat several health conditions. [13] [14] These conditions include primary immunodeficiency, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Kawasaki disease, certain cases of HIV/AIDS and measles, Guillain–Barré syndrome, and certain other infections when a ...

6. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia - Wikipedia

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   Rituximab can be combined with bendamustine to achieve a 71% overall and 40% complete response rate with an increased response seen with prolonged therapy (with a time to best response at a median of 30 months) due to the drugs' effect on long lived plasma cells. [4] Splenectomy is less efficacious in cold agglutinin disease. [22]

7. List of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies - Wikipedia

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   Rituximab: MabThera, Rituxan: mab: chimeric: CD20: Y [109] lymphomas, leukemias, some autoimmune disorders Rivabazumab pegol [12] mab: humanized: Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system: Robatumumab: mab: human: IGF-1 receptor (CD221) cancer Rmab: RabiShield: human: rabies virus G glycoprotein: Y: post-exposure prophylaxis of rabies ...