Julie Mankikian, Agnès Caille, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert, Marie-Sara Agier, Julien Bermudez, Philippe Bonniaud, Raphael Borie, Pierre-Yves Brillet, Jacques Cadranel, Isabelle Court-Fortune, Bruno Crestani, Marie-Pierre Debray, Emmanuel Gomez, Anne Gondouin, Sandrine Hirschi-Santelmo, Dominique Israel-Biet, Stéphane Jouneau, Karine Juvin, Julie Leger, Mallorie Kerjouan, Charles-Hugo Marquette, Jean-Marc Naccache, Hilario Nunes, Laurent Plantier, Grégoire Prevot, Sébastien Quetant, Julie Traclet, Victor Valentin, Yurdagul Uzunhan, Lidwine Wémeau-Stervinou, Theodora Bejan-Angoulvant, Vincent Cottin, Sylvain Marchand-Adam
BACKGROUND: Standard of care for interstitial lung disease (ILD) with a nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) pattern proposes mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) as one of the first-step therapies while rituximab is used as rescue therapy. METHODS: In a randomised, double-blind, two-parallel group, placebo-controlled trial (NCT02990286), patients with connective tissue disease-associated ILD or idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (with or without autoimmune features) and a NSIP pattern (defined on NSIP pathological pattern or on integration of clinicobiological data and a NSIP-like high-resolution computed tomography pattern) were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive rituximab (1000 mg) or placebo on day 1 and day 15 in addition to MMF (2 g daily) for 6 months...
June 2023: European Respiratory Journal