In Conversation With… Deborah Gelinas, MD
“The damage caused by steroid exposure is not surprising - it is expected.” Deborah Gelinas, MD is a Neuromuscular Expert Medical Affairs for Argenx. She also serves as an Associate Professor in the ...
In Conversation With… Max Hamburger MD
“While some steroid-toxicities can be mitigated by tapering the drug back, a lot of the side effects are very long lasting. Steroids are like radiation, the best amount of exposure is no exposure.” ...
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 ...
In Conversation With… Yoshiya Tanaka MD, PhD
"We know that it is not easy to taper patients safely. So if we find a patient’s toxicity scores are worsening we can try an immunosuppressant or a biologic drug and then we need to track to see if ...
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