Sequential rituximab and mepolizumab in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA): a European multicentre observational study

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
• ² Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Rheumatology Unit, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
• ³ Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
• ⁴ Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy.
• ⁵ Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele, Milano, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Section, University of Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
• ⁸ Medical Sciences Surgery and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
• ⁹ Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital and Humanitas University, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Lombardia, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Spedali Civili and University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
• ¹¹ Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine DIMED, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Nephrology, Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading, Reading, UK.
• ¹³ Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall Hebron, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁴ Unit of Allergology and Immunology, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Internal Medicine, G. Montpied Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• ¹⁶ Divion of Immunology and Allergy - Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.
• ¹⁷ University Center of Excellence on Nephrologic, Rheumatologic and Rare Diseases (ERK-net, ERN-Reconnect and RITA-ERN Member) with Nephrology and Dialysis Unit and Center of Immuno-Rheumatology and Rare Diseases (CMID), and Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences of the University of Turin, San Giovanni Bosco Hub Hospital and University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
• ¹⁸ Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences "Mario Serio", and Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, University of Florence and Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy [email protected].