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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The prednisone dosage in treatment of moderate to severe (myasthenia gravis [MG]) is commonly gradually ...

In a single-center, single-arm, open-label pilot study, 30 adults (mean age, 73.7 years) with GCA received 162 mg of tocilizumab as a subcutaneous injection once a week for 52 weeks, plus prednisone ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. To compare avacopan (CCX168, ChemoCentryx) with a ...

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 ...

Three yellow capsules on blueish, reflective background. Avacopan plus rituximab offers a superior remission rate at 52 weeks and lower risk of relapse compared with prednisone taper plus rituximab, ...

Avacopan was safe and effective among patients with respiratory tract manifestations of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis. Avacopan shows promising efficacy and safety among ...

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, ...