Medically reviewed by Alex Yampolsky, PharmDKey TakeawaysPrednisone should be reduced gradually to avoid severe withdrawal symptoms.Your healthcare provider will help create a tapering schedule based ...

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A combination of tocilizumab plus prednisone-tapered therapy was superior to placebo plus steroid taper for achieving glucocorticoid-free remission in giant-cell arteritis (GCA), the phase 3 ...

New treatment strategies in clinical trials show promise in reducing the tapering time of glucocorticoids (GCs) or possibly even replacing the use of GCs. Selective GC receptor agonists and modulators ...

Giant-cell arteritis commonly relapses when glucocorticoids are tapered, and the prolonged use of glucocorticoids is associated with side effects. The effect of the interleukin-6 receptor alpha ...

Gradual withdrawal of glucocorticoids was successful among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) after 2 years of clinically quiescent disease, without an increased likelihood of flares, ...

I’d become an eating machine with a loathsome attitude on prednisone, so I decided to conduct my own taper of the drug. Four months after my allogeneic bone marrow transplant, I left the Stanford ...