Steroid-toxicity in dermatology: taking a stand for patients with autoimmune blistering diseases
Autoimmune blistering diseases are painful and debilitating dermatoses. Their treatment is based on steroids, often for extended periods of time, leading patients to suffer the consequences of ...
Predicting Steroid-Toxicity
A new study published in ACR Open Rheumatology1 by clinical researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has found it is possible to evaluate the risk of a patient encountering future ...
Depression, Insomnia, Most Common Steroid Toxicities in Global Trial
"Individual response is variable - there are no obvious clinical factors that we have been able to pinpoint that predict how severe side effects may be - but there appears to be a resounding benefit ...
In Conversation With… Dedee Murrell, MD DSc
“Steroid-toxicity is a huge problem amongst our patients… it sounds simple to just give people steroids, but the types of side effects they get when they have to be on these drugs for one to two ...
Ruminations on 20 Years of Advances in IgG4-Related Disease Diagnosis and Management
“While there is a growing body of case work on IgG4-related disease, people still find it a revelation that IgG4-related disease is actually a form of vasculitis.” The epidemiology of IgG4-related ...
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