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Highly efficacious, long-term, triglyceride lowering with rituximab therapy in a patient with autoimmune hypertriglyceridemia

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We report the first case of an autoimmune hypertriglyceridemia successfully treated with rituximab, an anti-CD20-targeted monoclonal antibody. A 45-year-old man, with prior autoimmune conditions, developed severe, acquired hypertriglyceridemia resistant to traditional triglyceride lowering therapies. After the elimination of secondary or genetic causes, we detected the presence of anti-LPL-IgG by immunoblot. After 3 infusions of rituximab, we observed a marked improvement of his hypertriglyceridemia, concomitant with a reduction in plasma anti-LPL antibody titer and B-lymphocytes counts. The patient has been receiving rituximab maintenance therapy for 5 years without any serious adverse events and with excellent control of his previous, marked hypertriglyceridemia.
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hal-01996207 , version 1 (28-01-2019)

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Sophie Béliard, Mathilde Di Filippo, Gilles Kaplanski, Rene Valero. Highly efficacious, long-term, triglyceride lowering with rituximab therapy in a patient with autoimmune hypertriglyceridemia. Journal of clinical lipidology, 2018, 12 (4), pp.883-887. ⟨10.1016/j.jacl.2018.04.011⟩. ⟨hal-01996207⟩
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