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Rituximab (RTX) is widely used as a first-line therapeutic strategy in B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. However, a large proportion of patients either do not respond to the treatment or relapse during B cell reconstitution. Primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a prototypic B cell mediated au...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
Rituximab (RTX) is widely used as a first-line therapeutic strategy for patients affected by immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). However, a large proportion of patients relapse after successful treatment. The present NGS assay was done to help find the cause for this relapse on the immune repertoire leve...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
Splenic tissues from immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) patients splenectomized after primary failure of treatment with the B-cell depleting agent rituximab were analyzed, and antibody-secreting cells were identified as the major B-cell population resisting the treatment. The phenotype, antibody ...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
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