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Identification of target antigens of anti-endothelial cell and anti-vascular smooth muscle cell antibodies in patients with giant cell arteritis: a proteomic approachAlexis Régent
Inserm U1016, Institut Cochin, CNRS UMR 8104, 8 rue Mechain, F 75014 Paris, France
Arthritis Res Ther 13:R107. 2011..We thus decided to detect autoantibodies directed against endothelial cells (ECs) and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in the serum of GCA patients and to identify their target antigens...
[La Presse Médicale: a step forward]Loic Guillevin
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital Cochin, Paris
Presse Med 35:1-2. 2006
Virus-induced systemic vasculitides: new therapeutic approachesLoic Guillevin
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, AP HP, Universite Rene Descartes Paris V, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris, France
Clin Dev Immunol 11:227-31. 2004..In vasculitis related to HCV-associated cryoglobulinemia, plasma exchanges improve the outcome but the poor effectiveness of antiviral drugs is not able to favor, usually, a definite recovery of the patients and relapses are frequent...
[Necrosing vasculitis]Loic Guillevin
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital Cochin, Paris
Rev Prat 54:1513-4. 2004
Clinical pictures of and therapeutic strategies for systemic vasculitidesL Guillevin
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Autoimmun Rev 3:S49-51. 2004
Short-term corticosteroids then lamivudine and plasma exchanges to treat hepatitis B virus-related polyarteritis nodosaL Guillevin
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Avicenne, Bobigny, France
Arthritis Rheum 51:482-7. 2004..To assess the efficacy and safety of lamivudine, an antiviral agent that strongly inhibits hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA replication, combined with plasma exchanges after short-term corticosteroids for HBV-related polyartertitis nodosa (PAN)...
[Twenty-seven years' activities of the French vasculitis study group (FVSG)]L Guillevin
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Rev Med Interne 28:S263-5. 2007
[Pericarditis in internal medicine]L Guillevin
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Rev Med Interne 28:S20-1. 2007
Hepatitis B virus-associated polyarteritis nodosa: clinical characteristics, outcome, and impact of treatment in 115 patientsLoic Guillevin
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Medicine (Baltimore) 84:313-22. 2005..The major cause of death is gastrointestinal tract involvement. Importantly, the frequency of HBV-PAN has decreased in relation to improved blood safety and vaccination campaigns...
Therapeutic strategies for systemic necrotizing vasculitidesLoic Guillevin
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, université Paris René Descartes, Paris, France
Allergol Int 56:105-11. 2007..Some of them have achieved promising positive effects, for example, anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies, and are now being evaluated in prospective trials...
[Treatment of ANCA-associated vascularitides]Loic Guillevin
Service de Medecine Interne, Centre de référence national, Plan maladies rares, vascularites et sclérodermie systémique, Hopital Cochin, AP HP, Universite Paris 5 Rene Descartes, Paris, France
Presse Med 36:922-7. 2007..These biologics must be prescribed extremely cautiously and only in trial settings, especially in view of the adverse effects, few but severe, recently been reported with them...
Treatment of Churg-Strauss syndrome without poor-prognosis factors: a multicenter, prospective, randomized, open-label study of seventy-two patientsCamillo Ribi
Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 58:586-94. 2008....
Clinical features and outcomes in 348 patients with polyarteritis nodosa: a systematic retrospective study of patients diagnosed between 1963 and 2005 and entered into the French Vasculitis Study Group DatabaseChristian Pagnoux
Universite Paris Descartes, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 62:616-26. 2010..This study was undertaken to describe the main characteristics of and long-term outcomes in patients with well-characterized PAN diagnoses...
Azathioprine or methotrexate maintenance for ANCA-associated vasculitisChristian Pagnoux
Universite Paris Descartes, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
N Engl J Med 359:2790-803. 2008..However, azathioprine and methotrexate have not been compared with regard to safety and efficacy...
Churg-Strauss syndrome with poor-prognosis factors: A prospective multicenter trial comparing glucocorticoids and six or twelve cyclophosphamide pulses in forty-eight patientsPascal Cohen
Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Université René Descartes Paris, Recherche Clinique et Thérapeutique, Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 57:686-93. 2007..To compare long and short durations of adjunctive cyclophosphamide for the treatment of severe Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS)...
IgG reactivity with a 100-kDa tissue and endothelial cell antigen identified as topoisomerase 1 distinguishes between limited and diffuse systemic sclerosis patientsPaloma Garcia de la Pena-Lefebvre
UPRES EA 3408, UFR SMBH Leonard de Vinci, Bobigny, France
Clin Immunol 111:241-51. 2004..Our results indicate that Ab from patients with limited or diffuse SSc with or without anti-topo 1 Ab exhibit specific and mutually exclusive reactivity patterns...
The three-year incidence of pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with systemic sclerosis in a multicenter nationwide longitudinal study in FranceEric Hachulla
Hopital Claude Huriez, Department of Internal Medicine, National Reference Center for Scleroderma, and University of Lille, Lille, France
Arthritis Rheum 60:1831-9. 2009..85%. The aim of this observational study was to investigate the incidence of PAH and pulmonary hypertension (PH) during a 3-year followup of patients from the same cohort (the ItinérAIR-Sclérodermie Study)...
Treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and microscopic polyangiitis without poor-prognosis factors: A prospective randomized study of one hundred twenty-four patientsCamillo Ribi
Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, 75679 Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 62:1186-97. 2010....
Anti-endothelial cell antibodies from patients with limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis bind to centromeric protein B (CENP-B)Amélie Servettaz
Universite Paris Descartes, Faculte de Medecine, UPRES EA 1833, Laboratoire d Immunologie, Paris, France
Clin Immunol 120:212-9. 2006..The main target of anti-endothelial cell antibodies in patients with limited cutaneous SSc is the nuclear and ubiquitous protein CENP-B...
Patient preference disability questionnaire in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional surveyLuc Mouthon
Paris Descartes University, UPRES EA 4058, and Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 59:968-73. 2008..To assess patient priorities concerning disability in systemic sclerosis (SSc)...
Employment status and socio-economic burden in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional surveyChristelle Nguyen
Pôle de Médecine Interne, Centre de Référence pour les Vascularites Nécrosantes et la Sclérodermie Systémique, Paris, France
Rheumatology (Oxford) 49:982-9. 2010..To assess employment status and socio-economic burden in SSc patients...
[Microscopic polyangiitis]Christian Pagnoux
Service de Medecine Interne, Centre de référence national, Plan maladies rares, vascularites nécrosantes et sclérodermie systémique, Hopital Cochin, AP HP, Universite Paris 5 Rene Descartes, Paris, France
Presse Med 36:895-901. 2007..Biological therapies are under evaluation. The remission rate is above 80% with these regimens, and the relapse rate is around 30% at 5 years, lower than for Wegener's granulomatosis...
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in Churg-Strauss-syndrome. Impact of immunosuppressants on outcome assessed in a prospective study on 8 patientsJulien Marmursztejn
Department of Cardiology, Hopital Cochin, UNIVERSITE DE PARIS, France
Clin Exp Rheumatol 28:8-13. 2010..To evaluate the effects of immunosuppressive therapy on cardiac abnormalities observed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) in patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS)...
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and the Churg-Strauss syndromeRégis Sablé-Fourtassou
Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris 5 Rene Descartes, Paris, France
Ann Intern Med 143:632-8. 2005..Since testing for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) became available for routine evaluation, no large homogeneous cohort of patients with the Churg-Strauss syndrome has been studied...
Association of gender with clinical expression, quality of life, disability, and depression and anxiety in patients with systemic sclerosisChristelle Nguyen
Universite Paris Descartes, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, Pôle de Médecine Interne, Centre de Référence pour les Vascularites Nécrosantes et la Sclérodermie Systémique, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
PLoS ONE 6:e17551. 2011..To assess the association of gender with clinical expression, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), disability, and self-reported symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc)...
[Interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis]Luc Mouthon
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital Cochin, Centre de Référence pour les Vascularites et la Sclérodermie Systémique, AP HP, Paris
Presse Med 35:1943-51. 2006..A subgroup of patients with rapidly progressive ILD might benefit from intravenous cyclophosphamide pulses in association with 15 mg/d prednisone...
Treatment of refractory and/or severe ANCA-associated systemic necrotizing vasculitidesLoic Guillevin
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris, Paris, France
Isr Med Assoc J 10:89-91. 2008..Some of them (e.g., anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha and anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies) have achieved promising results and are now often used to treat severe cases...
Sensitivity to change in systemic sclerosis of the McMaster-Toronto Arthritis Patient Preference Disability Questionnaire (MACTAR): shift in patient priorities over timeChristelle Nguyen
Paris Descartes University, UPRES EA 4058, Department of Internal Medicine, Referent Center for Necrotizing Vasculitis and Systemic Sclerosis, Cochin Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris AP HP, Paris, France
J Rheumatol 37:359-64. 2010..To assess the sensitivity to change of the McMaster-Toronto Arthritis Patient Preference Disability Questionnaire (MACTAR) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and a shift in patient priorities over time...
Diagnostic and prognostic relevance of neuromuscular biopsy in primary Sjögren's syndrome-related neuropathyBenjamin Terrier
Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Hopital de Bicetre, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
Arthritis Rheum 57:1520-9. 2007..To evaluate the clinicobiologic presentation in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS)-related peripheral neuropathy, the histologic results of neuromuscular biopsy (NMB), and clinical outcome, and to identify prognostic factors...
Risk factors for death and the 3-year survival of patients with systemic sclerosis: the French ItinérAIR-Sclérodermie studyEric Hachulla
Department of Internal Medicine, National Reference Center for Scleroderma, Claude Huriez Hospital, University of Lille, 59037 Lille Cedex, France
Rheumatology (Oxford) 48:304-8. 2009..This longitudinal study investigated survival, risk factors and causes of death in the multicentre ItinérAIR-Sclérodermie cohort of patients with SSc without severe pulmonary fibrosis or severe left heart disease at baseline...
Identification of target antigens of antiendothelial cell antibodies in healthy individuals: A proteomic approachAmélie Servettaz
Faculte de Medecine, UPRES EA 4058, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Proteomics 8:1000-8. 2008..IgG from all of the healthy individuals tested recognized a restricted set of highly conserved ubiquitous proteins playing key roles in cell biology and maintenance of homeostasis...
[Therapeutic management of systemic sclerosis]Luc Mouthon
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital Cochin, Centre de Référence pour les Vascularites Nécrosantes et la Sclérodermie Systémique, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Faculte de Medecine
Presse Med 35:1975-82. 2006..Physical therapy and rehabilitation may help to treat disability and loss of function in SSc patients...
Scleroderma renal crisis: a retrospective multicentre study on 91 patients and 427 controlsLoic Guillevin
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Paris Cedex 14, France
Rheumatology (Oxford) 51:460-7. 2012..This study was undertaken to describe SRC characteristics, prognosis and outcome, and evaluate the responsibility of CSs in its occurrence...
Immunogenicity and safety of seasonal and 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 influenza vaccines for patients with autoimmune diseases: a prospective, monocentre trial on 199 patientsAlex Kostianovsky
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM U1060, Referral Center for Rare Autoimmune Systemic Diseases, Paris, France
Clin Exp Rheumatol 30:S83-9. 2012..This study was undertaken to evaluate immunogenicity and tolerance of seasonal (SFV) and A/H1N1 flu vaccines (HFV) in AID patients...
Is pulmonary arterial hypertension really a late complication of systemic sclerosis?Eric Hachulla
Department of Internal Medicine, National Reference Center for Scleroderma, Claude Huriez Hospital, University of Lille, 59037 Lille Cedex, France
Chest 136:1211-9. 2009..PAH is generally considered to be a late complication of limited cutaneous SSc. This study identified and investigated a subset of SSc patients with early-onset PAH...
Population-based prevalence study of Behçet's disease: differences by ethnic origin and low variation by age at immigrationAlfred Mahr
Department of Internal Medicine, Universite Paris 5 Rene Descartes, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 58:3951-9. 2008..To estimate the prevalence of Behçet's disease (BD) in a multiethnic population living in France, with particular focus on disease risk among immigrants...
Predictors of treatment resistance and relapse in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated small-vessel vasculitis: comparison of two independent cohortsChristian Pagnoux
Hopital Cochin, AP HP, UNIVERSITE DE PARIS, Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 58:2908-18. 2008..This study was undertaken to evaluate the applicability of those predictors in an independent cohort followed up by the French Vasculitis Study Group...
Pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with systemic sclerosis in patients with functional class II dyspnoea: mild symptoms but severe outcomeEric Hachulla
Department of Internal Medicine, National Reference Center for Scleroderma, Claude Huriez Hospital, University of Lille, France
Rheumatology (Oxford) 49:940-4. 2010..To describe the history of SSc-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (SSc-PAH) in patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class (FC) II dyspnoea at diagnosis...
Differences in patients with systemic sclerosis recruited from associations and tertiary care settingsCaroline Mestre-Stanislas
Universite Paris Descartes, Faculte de Medecine, Pôle de Médecine Interne, Centre de Référence pour les Vascularites Nécrosantes et la Sclérodermie Systémique, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Presse Med 39:e205-9. 2010..To compare patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) recruited from a patient association or a tertiary care setting...
[Classification of systemic vasculitides]Loic Guillevin
Service de Medecine Interne, Centre de référence maladies rares Vascularites et Sclérodermies systémiques, Hopital Cochin, université Paris V René Descartes, Paris
Rev Prat 58:480-6. 2008....
Extraocular manifestations of birdshot chorioretinopathy in 118 French patientsChristian Pagnoux
Department of Internal Medicine, National referral center for Systemic necrotizing vasculitides and systemic scleroderma, Hopital Cochin, Universite Paris Descartes, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, 75879 Paris cedex 14, France
Presse Med 39:e97-e102. 2010..Published studies on birdshot chorioretinopathy (BCR) did not provide definitive information on possibly associated extraocular manifestations...
Identification of target antigens of antifibroblast antibodies in pulmonary arterial hypertensionBenjamin Terrier
Laboratoire d Immunologie, UPRES EA 4058, Pavillon Gustave Roussy, 4e Etage, Paris Descartes University, 8 rue Mechain, 75014 Paris, France
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 177:1128-34. 2008....
Long-term outcome of 37 patients with Wegener's granulomatosis with renal involvementJacques Eric Gottenberg
Department of Internal Medicine, Nationale referral center for Vasculitides and Scleroderma, Hopital Cochin, AP HP, Universite Paris 5, Paris
Presse Med 36:771-8. 2007..This prospective study sought to assess the long-term outcome and identify prognostic factors of patients with kidney disease related to Wegener's granulomatosis (WG)...
Targets of anti-endothelial cell antibodies in pulmonary hypertension and sclerodermaHanadi Dib
Inserm U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France
Eur Respir J 39:1405-14. 2012....
Delayed relapse of Churg-Strauss syndrome manifesting as colon ulcers with mucosal granulomas: 3 casesNathalie Memain
Rheumatology Department, Bichat Teaching Hospital, Paris, France
J Rheumatol 29:388-91. 2002..We describe 3 new cases of colonic ulcers in CSS. Unusual features were diagnosis of the ulcers during a delayed relapse and presence of eosinophilic granulomas within the mucosa...
Lymphoma complicating common variable immunodeficiency with granulomatous disease: report of two casesVéronique Le Guern
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Avicenne, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris Nord, Bobigny, France
Eur J Haematol 71:459-63. 2003..We describe two CVID patients with systemic granulomatosis who developed B-cell lymphomas, one related to Epstein Barr virus infection, 5 and 12 yr after CVID had been diagnosed...
Intravenous immunoglobulins for relapses of systemic vasculitides associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies: results of a multicenter, prospective, open-label study of twenty-two patientsValerie Martinez
Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 58:308-17. 2008....
Churg-strauss syndrome: clinical symptoms, complementary investigations, prognosis and outcome, and treatmentBertrand Dunogué
Department of Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Rare Autoimmune and Systemic Diseases including Vasculitis, Scleroderma, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, France
Semin Respir Crit Care Med 32:298-309. 2011..Future therapies might reflect these differences more strongly...
Therapeutic options for systemic sclerosis related interstitial lung diseasesLuc Mouthon
Universite Paris Descartes, UPRES EA 4058, Pôle de Médecine Interne et Centre de Référence pour les Vascularites Nécrosantes et la Sclérodermie Systémique, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Respir Med 104:S59-69. 2010..A subgroup of patients with rapidly progressive ILD might benefit from pulsed intravenous cyclophosphamide combined with prednisone 15 mg daily but this remains to be confirmed...
Identification of target antigens of self-reactive IgG in intravenous immunoglobulin preparationsGuillaume Bussone
Universite Paris Descartes, Faculte de Medecine, UPRES EA 4058, Paris, France
Proteomics 9:2253-62. 2009..Overall, 96 proteins were identified by MS. Fourteen were recognized in both extracts including glycolysis proteins such as alpha-enolase, RNA processing and cytoskeletal proteins such as lamin-A/C...
Selective oxidation of DNA topoisomerase 1 induces systemic sclerosis in the mouseAmélie Servettaz
Universite Paris Descartes, Faculte de Medecine, EA1833, Paris, France
J Immunol 182:5855-64. 2009..Moreover, this demonstration is the first that shows the specific oxidation of an autoantigen directly participates in the pathogenesis of an autoimmune disease...
[Classification of systemic vasculatides]Loic Guillevin
Centre de référence national, Plan maladies rares, vascularites et sclérodermie systémique, Hopital Cochin, AP HP, Universite Paris 5 Rene Descartes, Paris, France
Presse Med 36:845-53. 2007....
Accumulation of hydrogen peroxide is an early and crucial step for paclitaxel-induced cancer cell death both in vitro and in vivoJerome Alexandre
UPRES 1833, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, faculté de médecine Paris 5, France
Int J Cancer 119:41-8. 2006..These results suggest that ROS participate in vitro and in vivo to paclitaxel cytotoxicity...
Microscopic polyangiitis and polyarteritis nodosa: how and when do they start?Christian Agard
Hopital Avicenne, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, France
Arthritis Rheum 49:709-15. 2003..To describe initial clinical symptoms attributable to microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) or polyarteritis nodosa (PAN)...
Wegener's granulomatosis strictly and persistently localized to one organ is rare: assessment of 16 patients from the French Vasculitis Study Group databaseChristian Pagnoux
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, 75879 Paris cedex 14, France
J Rheumatol 38:475-8. 2011..To study the frequency and characteristics of patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) strictly and persistently localized to one organ...
Treatment strategies and outcome of induction-refractory Wegener's granulomatosis or microscopic polyangiitis: analysis of 32 patients with first-line induction-refractory disease in the WEGENT trialRaphaele Seror
Department of Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Necrotizing Vasculitides and Systemic Sclerosis, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Ann Rheum Dis 69:2125-30. 2010....
Patients with systemic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases are at risk of vaccine-preventable illnessesCecile Marchand-Janssen
Universite Paris Descartes, Faculte de Medecine, INSERM, CIC BT505, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin Saint Vincent De Paul, Pôle de médecine, CIC de vaccinologie Cochin Pasteur, Paris, France
Rheumatology (Oxford) 50:1099-105. 2011..To evaluate vaccine coverage and humoral immunity to tetanus, diphtheria and poliomyelitis in adults followed for systemic inflammatory and/or autoimmune diseases (SIADs)...
Indications for biotherapy in systemic vasculitidesLoic Guillevin
Department of Internal Medicine, French Vasculitis Study Group, Centre de Référence Vascularites et Sclérodermie, Hopital Cochin, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Clin Rev Allergy Immunol 32:85-96. 2007..Results of international ongoing trials will determine whether the agents may also have a place as first-line treatment...
Indication for plasma exchange for systemic necrotizing vasculiditiesLoic Guillevin
Department of Internal Medicine, Referral Center for Rare Diseases, Vasculitis and Scleroderma, Hopital Cochin, AP HP, Université de Paris René Descartes, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris, France
Transfus Apher Sci 36:179-85. 2007..Although PE does not improve survival, their adjunction to corticosteroids and immunosuppressants for patients with alveolar hemorrhage could also limit the severity of this severe manifestation...
Serum eosinophil cationic protein: a marker of disease activity in Churg-Strauss syndromePhilippe Guilpain
Paris Descartes University, Faculty of Medicine, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1107:392-9. 2007..6264; P < 0.05) and during periods of remission (R = 0.4798; P < 0.05). Our results support that ECP might be used as a disease activity marker in CSS...
Infliximab or rituximab for refractory Wegener's granulomatosis: long-term follow up. A prospective randomised multicentre study on 17 patientsMathilde de Menthon
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Clin Exp Rheumatol 29:S63-71. 2011..To compare efficacy and tolerance of infliximab versus rituximab to treat refractory Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), and clarify their respective indications...
Advances in the treatments of systemic vasculitidesLoic Guillevin
Service de Medecine Interne, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, université Paris René Descartes, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris, France
Clin Rev Allergy Immunol 35:72-8. 2008..The strategies that improve patient's outcome are discussed in the light of the prospective trials organized by international research groups...
The Five-Factor Score revisited: assessment of prognoses of systemic necrotizing vasculitides based on the French Vasculitis Study Group (FVSG) cohortLoic Guillevin
Department of Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic and Autoimmune Diseases Vasculitides and Scleroderma, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, UPRES 4058, Universite Paris Descartes, INSERM 1016, Paris, France loic guillevin cch aphp fr
Medicine (Baltimore) 90:19-27. 2011..The better WG prognosis for patients with ENT manifestations, even for patients with other visceral involvement, compared with the prognosis for those without ENT manifestations, probably reflects WG phenotype heterogeneity...
Thiabendazole-induced acute liver failure requiring transplantation and subsequent diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosaMatthieu Groh
Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Referral Center for Rare Autoimmune and Systemic Diseases, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Clin Exp Rheumatol 30:S107-9. 2012..His outcome was favourable after second OLT, under steroids, cyclophosphamide pulses and tacrolimus. In retrospect, his initial symptoms and hypereosinophilia were probably attributable to PAN...
Anti-PL7 antisynthetase syndrome under interferon therapyAchille Aouba
Department of Adult Haematology, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, 149, rue de Sevres, 75015 Paris, France
Joint Bone Spine 78:94-7. 2011....
Natural and disease associated anti-myeloperoxidase (MPO) autoantibodiesPhilippe Guilpain
Paris Descartes University, Faculty of Medicine, UPRES EA 4058, Department of Internal Medicine, Paris, France
Autoimmun Rev 7:421-5. 2008..Thus, anti-MPO Abs could play a pathogenic role in vivo by triggering an oxidative burst leading to severe endothelial damages...
IgG from patients with systemic sclerosis bind to DNA antitopoisomerase 1 in normal human fibroblasts extractsMathieu C Tamby
Paris Descartes University, Faculty of Medicine, UPRES EA 4058, Paris, France
Biologics 2:583-91. 2008..These two bands were further identified as DNA topoisomerase 1. Our results indicate that IgG from patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis bind DNA topoisomerase 1 in normal human fibroblasts extracts...
Low influenza vaccination rate among patients with systemic sclerosisLuc Mouthon
Department of Internal Medicine, Cochin Hospital, Paris Cedex 14, France
Rheumatology (Oxford) 49:600-6. 2010..To evaluate the influenza vaccination rate and factors influencing it in patients with SSc...
Analysis of Wegener's granulomatosis responses to rituximab: current evidence and therapeutic prospectsAchille Aouba
Department of Internal Medicine and the French Vasculitis Study Group, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris, 5 René Descartes, Hopital Cochin, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75679, Paris Cedex 14, France
Clin Rev Allergy Immunol 34:65-73. 2008..This promising biotherapy opens the way for other therapeutic agents targeting B lymphocytes and to improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of ANCA-associated vasculitis...
Interstitial lung disease associated with systemic sclerosis: what is the evidence for efficacy of cyclophosphamide?Alice Berezne
Paris Descartes University, Faculty of Medicine, UPRES EA 4058, Department of Internal Medicine and Reference Center for Necrotizing Vasculitides and Systemic Sclerosis, Cochin Hospital, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1110:271-84. 2007..Since only a minority of SSc patients develops severe ILD, we propose that further studies evaluating CYC should focus on the subgroup of SSc patients with worsening ILD...
Remittent non-destructive polysynovitis in P-ANCA-positive vasculitis patients with anti-CCP antibodiesChristian Pagnoux
Department of Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Necrotizing Vasculitides and Systemic Sclerosis, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75879 Paris cedex 14, France
Joint Bone Spine 77:604-7. 2010....
[Treatment of systemic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases with rituximab]Guillaume Bussone
Universite Paris Descartes, Pôle de Médecine Interne, Centre de Référence pour les Vascularites Nécrosantes et la Sclérodermie Systémique, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, F 75679 Paris cedex 14, France
Presse Med 38:808-23. 2009..Relapses of the disease are common around six months after rituximab infusion. The response to retreatment with rituximab is usually the same that was obtained after the first course of treatment...
[Flu vaccine and auto-immune and/or inflammatory diseases]Paula Duchet-Niedziolka
Universite Paris Descartes, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris AP HP, Hopital Cochin, Centre d Investigation Clinique de Vaccinologie Cochin Pasteur, INSERM, CIC BT505, Paris, France
Presse Med 40:248-52. 2011..More data are needed about the severity of influenza infection and the efficacy of influenza vaccination in patients with systemic inflammatory and/or autoimmune diseases to improve their vaccine coverage...
Presentation and outcome of gastrointestinal involvement in systemic necrotizing vasculitides: analysis of 62 patients with polyarteritis nodosa, microscopic polyangiitis, Wegener granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, or rheumatoid arthritis-associated Christian Pagnoux
Hopital Cochin, Service de Medecine Interne, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris Cedex 14, France
Medicine (Baltimore) 84:115-28. 2005....
