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 ...

As a result, there is no evidence from controlled studies on the efficacy of different initial doses or drug tapering. The only controlled study suggests that initial prednisone doses ≤ 10 mg is ...

Tailoring rituximab treatment among patients with pemphigus based on the presence of predictors of early relapse reduced relapse rates at 12 months.

Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...

The tapering dose of prednisolone we discussed earlier is very important in cats. That’s because prednisone is a ...

Limitations of the study included a low dose of infliximab, rapid prednisone tapering (which might have contributed to the high rate of disease flare-ups) and a small sample size (a larger ...