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Scleroderma "en coup de sabre" With Epilepsy and Uveitis Successfully Treated With Tocilizumab
Maria Osminina1, Nathalia Geppe1, Elena Afonina1
1Department of Pediatrics, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
Reumatologia Clinica
|June 23, 2018
Abstract:
Case history of a small girl outlet with epilepsy, followed by scleroderma skin damage and uveitis, neurovasculitis with white matter foci in brain on the side of skin lesion in two months, immunologic disease activity. Resistance to conventional immunosuppressive therapy forced us to initiate the treatment with tocilizumab. It was well tolerated and led to significant improvement of brain, ocular and skin manifestations.