Our results support the hypothesis that a low initial dose of prednisone is sufficient to control PMR in the majority of patients. They also suggest that 0.20 mg per kg weight could be the ...

b During this visit, the patient was prescribed prednisone 10 mg orally daily and his warfarin dosage was decreased to 9 mg weekly. c During this visit, the patient’s warfarin dosage was ...

Objective To develop recommendations on monitoring for adverse events (AEs) of low-dose glucocorticoid (GC) therapy (≤7.5 mg prednisone or equivalent daily) in clinical trials and daily practice.

one dose of intravenous pulse cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m 2, intravenous immunoglobulin 400 mg/kg/day for 4 days, plasmapheresis on alternate days for five cycles, and prednisone 40 mg/day.

Objectives Patients with SLE take multiple medications. Within a large prospective longitudinal SLE cohort, we characterised ...

Abstract: Biological effects of low-dose radiation (LDR) are distinguishable from those of high-dose radiation ... two human solid tumor cell lines (lung carcinoma cell line NCI-H446 and glioma cell ...

A typical platelet count range can change with age. Platelet counts may fluctuate due to natural vascular aging, changes in bone marrow tissue, and altered blood plasma makeup. Platelets, or ...

A 58-year-old male patient presented to the dermatology clinic at West China Hospital of Sichuan University (Chengdu, Sichuan ...

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Drug addiction is a condition in which there is uncontrolled use of a substance with a harmful outcome. Drugs overstimulate the brain’s reward circuit, producing pleasure or euphoria. With repeated ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

Oxide nanoparticles, particularly iron oxide, ceria and silica nanoparticles, hold significant promise for biomedical applications owing to their unique magnetic, catalytic and porous properties ...