A prednisone taper gradually reduces your corticosteroid dose over days, weeks, or months to prevent prednisone withdrawal. Stopping prednisone abruptly can lead to adrenal insufficiency, which causes ...

A prednisone taper gradually reduces your corticosteroid dose over days, weeks, or months to prevent prednisone withdrawal. Stopping prednisone abruptly can lead to adrenal insufficiency ...

MP treatment consisted of an oral or intravenous dose of 1 gram of methylprednisolone given once per day for three consecutive days (no tapering), initiated immediately after the baseline scan.

We recommend tapering of the GC dose to a target of 5 mg prednisolone equivalent/day within 4–5 months. Avacopan may be considered as part of a strategy to reduce exposure to GC in granulomatosis with ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(13):1061-1069. Considering all of the data and their limitations, questions still remain regarding the optimal treatment of COPD exacerbations. The data of deJong ...

Background Since the publication of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) in 2009, several relevant randomised clinical ...

Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s (PD) and Huntington’s disease (HD) are characterized by a selective detrimental impact on neurons in a specific brain area. Currently, these diseases ...

Key points A 47-year-old French-speaking woman of African descent presented to the emergency department with a 1-week history of severe foot pain and difficulty walking. For the preceding 2 months she ...

She responded to systemic steroids (1 g of intravenous methylprednisolone, followed by oral prednisolone 1 mg/kg/day ... Relapse may occur when the dose is reduced (25% of cases), so taper should be ...