Prednisone

Pericarditis recurrence in lupus is more likely — and has a dose-dependent relationship — with oral prednisone treatment, though overall it is lower than in the general population, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Low doses of glucocorticoids added to immunosuppression yield no significant benefit for skin fibrosis in early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

SAN DIEGO — Paolo Caimi, MD, spoke with Healio about the latest results from the POLARIX trial presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

In this video, John H. Stone, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Edward A. Fox Chair in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses an important facet of IgG4-related disease other rheumatologists and providers should be aware of.

Early treatment with mycophenolate mofetil can reduce subsequent risks for severe flares and lupus nephritis in newly diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

An 84-year-old woman presented to the Tufts Medical Center emergency department with a chief complaint of blurred vision in the right eye.

Factors linked to better inhaled COPD medication adherence in veterans included older age, a higher number of maintenance inhalers used and chronic prednisone use, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

A simultaneous, multidrug, multi-targeted treatment regimen produced remissions in patients with certain types of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a phase 1b/phase 2 study.

In this video, Tycel Phillips, MD, discusses treatment options available to patients with DLBCL.

In this video, Tycel Phillips, MD, discusses challenges in diagnosing DLBCL.