Management Intravenous methylprednisolone 1,000 mg/day for 3 days, one dose of intravenous pulse cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m 2, intravenous immunoglobulin 400 mg/kg/day for 4 days, plasmapheresis on ...

Treatment options include pulse methylprednisolone, often in addition to calcineurin inhibitors (mainly cyclosporine but also, recently, tacrolimus). Cyctotoxic treatment, especially intravenous ...

Although intravenous ‘pulse’ corticosteroid therapy has been used in the past to treat severe ocular inflammation, it is not commonly used in the context of uveitic CMO. However, since 2001, ...

A common first-line approach is the use of high-dose glucocorticoid therapy, such as intravenous pulse methylprednisolone, administered at 30 mg per kilogram per dose (maximum, 1000 mg per dose ...

Pulse methylprednisolone should be used in the induction phase with concomitant alternative treatment, since some patients will show a late response to steroids. Calcineurin inhibitors are ...

Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

Patients who received rescue therapies such as cyclophosphamide, rituximab, tacrolimus or pulse-dose corticosteroids (equivalent to methylprednisolone 500 mg or greater) after baseline or who withdrew ...

Eventually, laparoscopy revealed the diagnosis of EPS. Treatment with tamoxifen to counteract fibrosis and a pulse dose of methylprednisolone was started. Unfortunately, the patient developed a bowel ...

To analyse the effects of intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) pulse therapy compared with additional IVIG in IVIG-resistant patients. Methods: IVMP was administered to patients with KD who had ...

Treatment with intravenous methylprednisolone followed by cyclophosphamide seemed ... with plasmapheresis and intravenous pulse cyclophosphamide). TM in our patients was associated with ...

Given the active phase of GPA and persistent fever despite the current dose of methylprednisolone(80mg/d), we administered a higher pulse dose of methylprednisolone (250 mg/day for 3 days, followed by ...

The patient continued to receive ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) and was administered intravenous pulse methylprednisolone (MP) at a dose of 100 mg (2 mg/kg) for 3 days. Subsequently, the patient’s TB ...