Reply To: rituxin for people WITHOUT the anti-mag type neuropathy

Hi Lori,
I don’t know of anyone personally, but there is a small study they did in Italy a couple of years ago on this topic. They took 13 people who tested negative for Anti-MAG neuropathy and had partial/complete refractory CIDP (eg. no other treatment really worked).

Of those 13 people, 9 of them responded within 1-6 months after receiving Rituximab. I’ve read the full article, but only the abstract is available free online: http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/82/3/306.abstract

I know that’s not really what you were looking for, but at least it can give you some hope!