Rheumatology

Belimumab

Questions discussed in this category

Would you use belimumab in a breastfeeding patient with SLE who has persistent joint pain, leukopenia and elevated dsDNA despite HCQ and azathioprine?

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How would you approach initiating belimumab in a patient with serologic evidence of prior hepatitis B infection?

Such as patients with negative Hepatitis B surface antigen and negative viral load but with positive hepatitis b core antibody.

1 Answer available

Would you consider adding voclosporin to belimumab and MMF in the setting of active proteinuria, rather than switching agents?

3 Answers available

Would you have any hesitation to use belimumab in a patient with IgA deficiency?

1 Answer available

Is it okay to use belimumab to treat SLE in a patient who has a history of lymphoma and is on a Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor (such as ibrutinib)?

1 Answer available

Do you think there is a role for belimumab in treating lupus nephritis and if so, in which patients would you considering adding it on?

Did the recently published BLISS-LN trial change your practice?

2 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

N Engl J Med,

Two-Year, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Belimumab in Lupus Nephritis.

Lupus, 2013-02

Safety profile of belimumab: pooled data from placebo-controlled phase 2 and 3 studies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Rheumatology (Oxford), 2022 Nov 02

British Society for Rheumatology guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding: immunomodulatory anti-rheumatic drugs and corticosteroids.

Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America, 2021 Feb 25

The Categorization of Pain in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Lupus science & medicine, 2023 Jan

Molecular endotypes of type 1 and type 2 SLE.

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