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Do you use both rituximab and plasmapheresis in patients with recurrent primary FSGS within three months of kidney transplantation?

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Nephrology · UCLA

For early recurrence (less than 3 months post-transplant), plasmapheresis is the first line of treatment with the rationale of removing a "permeability factor." Since many patients respond to plasmapheresis alone, rituximab does not need to be added as first-line therapy. In addition, there are risk...

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