administer systemic corticosteroid therapy (1 to 2 mg/kg/day prednisone or equivalent) until improvement to Grade 1 or less. Upon improvement to Grade 1 or less, initiate corticosteroid taper and ...

An acute necrotising myopathy is a distinct form of uncommon muscle disease characterised by the rapid advancement of ...

should be minimised to less than 7.5 mg/day (prednisone equivalent) and, when possible, withdrawn. Appropriate initiation of immunomodulatory agents (methotrexate, azathioprine, mycophenolate) can ...

8 At the Task Force meeting, it was decided to include the following definition as a compromise: ‘Inability to taper oral glucocorticoids (below 7.5 mg/day prednisone or equivalent)’. The Task Force ...

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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 ...

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The INR change was observed at a mean ± SD of 6.7 ± 3.3 days following the first dose of corticosteroid. Overall, 16 patients (50%) required a modification of their anticoagulation therapy ...

The study incorporated a corticosteroid taper, with patients on corticosteroids reducing to prednisone 5 mg per day by Week 24. No new safety signals were identified, and the most common adverse ...