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    Prednisone is a glucocorticoid medication mostly used to suppress the immune system and decrease inflammation in conditions such as asthma, COPD, and rheumatologic...
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    as a skin cream, or as eye drops. It differs from the similarly named prednisone in having a hydroxyl at the 11th carbon instead of a ketone. Side effects...
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  • wrestler. In addition to asthma, his bones were so brittle from taking prednisone that he would often break them while performing simple wrestling maneuvers...
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  • life-threatening complications. It is treated first with corticosteroids such as prednisone. Medications that block the action of interleukin-1, such as anakinra...
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    Dexamethasone and its derivatives are almost pure glucocorticoids, while prednisone and its derivatives have some mineralocorticoid action in addition to...
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    potent derivative of triamcinolone, and is about eight times as potent as prednisone. Most forms of triamcinolone acetonide are prescription drugs. In 2014...
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  • cycles. MSD and VCR are administered intravenously, while procarbazine and prednisone are pills taken orally. A newer Hodgkin lymphoma treatment is ABVD. C-MOPP...
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    1016/0039-128X(92)90013-Y. PMID 1481225. S2CID 21779154. "Prednisone Half Life Is A Good Medicine". PrednisoneSideEffects.org. Archived from the original on January...
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    doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone CHOP, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone [COP], vincristine, doxorubicin, prednisone, etoposide, cyclophosphamide...
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    accurate diagnosis is the first concern. In auto-immune liver disease, prednisone and azathioprine may be used for treatment. In lymphoma the treatment...
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    PMID 27843811. Rado JP, Blumenfeld G, Hammer S (Nov 1959). "The effect of prednisone and 6-methylprednisolone on mercurial diuresis in patients with refractory...
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    where the condition causes significant health problems, steroids such as prednisone are indicated. Medications such as methotrexate, chloroquine, or azathioprine...
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  • medicine prednisone, which is converted into prednisolone. In the United States, niraparib/abiraterone is indicated, in combination with prednisone, for adults...
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    Prednisolone valerate Prednisolone valeroacetate Prednisone acetate Prednisone palmitate Prednisone succinate Butixocort (tixocortol butyrate) Butixocort...
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    Vinblastine Vinblastine, Vincristine Vincristine Procarbazine Dacarbazine Chlormethine Cyclophosphamide, Procarbazine Etoposide Etoposide Prednisone Prednisone...
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    negative effects of the prednisone. When a high dose of prednisone cannot be reduced without losing muscle strength, or when prednisone is effective but it...
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    drugs In pharmacologic (supraphysiologic) doses, glucocorticoids, such as prednisone, dexamethasone, and hydrocortisone are used to suppress various allergic...
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    which prevents cells from duplicating by binding to the protein tubulin Prednisone or Prednisolone, which are corticosteroids. Sometimes the chimeric anti-CD20...
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  • He is best known for his isolation and reproduction of the steroids prednisone and prednisolone. Arthur Nobile was born in Newark, New Jersey on May...
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  • S2CID 33226991. Paraneoplastic Pemphigus~treatment at eMedicine "Prednisone Intensol (prednisone) dosing, indications, interactions, adverse effects, and more"...
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    additional disorder, a biopsy sample may be taken from the temporal artery. Prednisone is the drug of choice for PMR, and treatment duration is frequently greater...
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    injections, galcanezumab, civamide, verapamil, or oral glucocorticoids such as prednisone. Nerve stimulation or surgery may occasionally be used if other measures...
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    and suppressing the immune system. Typically, corticosteroids such as prednisone are used. Additionally, other immune suppression medications, such as...
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    such as neostigmine and pyridostigmine. Immunosuppressants, such as prednisone or azathioprine, may also be used. The surgical removal of the thymus...
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    errors. For example, in tall man lettering, "prednisone" and "prednisolone" should be written "predniSONE" and "predniSOLONE", respectively. The Office...
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    missing cortisol, sometimes in the form of hydrocortisone tablets, or prednisone tablets in a dosing regimen that mimics the physiological concentrations...
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  • corticosteroids. Short-term therapy (<3 months) with 10 to 30 mg/day of a prednisone equivalent has been reported to be associated with Cushingoid traits in...
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  • treat leukemia as it is often used as an immunosuppressant drug, and prednisone is a steroid that has also been found to be particularly effective as...
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  • with corticosteroids, antihistamines, analgesics, and (in severe cases) prednisone. It was first characterized in 1906. Signs and symptoms can take as long...
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    syndrome is caused by either excessive cortisol-like medication, such as prednisone, or a tumor that either produces or results in the production of excessive...
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