PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M R Baker
AU  - M Das
AU  - J Isaacs
AU  - P R W Fawcett
AU  - D Bates
TI  - Treatment of stiff person syndrome with rituximab
AID  - 10.1136/jnnp.2004.051144
DP  - 2005 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
PG  - 999--1001
VI  - 76
IP  - 7
4099  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/7/999.short
4100  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/7/999.full
SO  - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry2005 Jul 01; 76
AB  - This case report is about the novel use of the anti-CD20 antibody, rituximab, in the treatment of a 41 year old woman with stiff person syndrome. She was admitted to hospital as an emergency with prolonged and painful extensor spasms affecting the neck and back, arms, and legs. The disease had progressed despite a favourable initial response to conventional treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin and cytotoxics. Treatment with rituximab induced a lasting clinical remission.