..., no clear information is available on patients who have a benign course. Methods: This study was aimed at comparing patients with favorable (minimal manifestations [MM] or better) and unfavorable outcomes to determine whether excellent response to corticosteroid (CS) treatment within 3 months (good response...

...Bastiaan C. Ter Meulen; Henry Weinstein; Raymond Ostelo; Peter J. Koehler Epidural injection with corticosteroids is a common treatment option for patients with lower back pain or sciatica. In this paper we review its origin and evolution. The first injections were given around 1900 in Paris...

..., and then to maintain the status with low-dose oral corticosteroids (EAT strategy). We examined the merits of the EAT strategy. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed long-term effects of the EAT strategy (duration of therapy: 4.1 years) for 49 de novo MG patients and compared the effects to those of high-dose oral...

... therapy lowered quantitative synthesis in 6 out of 9 patients when given within 3 months before lumbar puncture (LP). Untreated patients with OB systematically had abnormal formulae. Patients treated with corticosteroids 10 or more months prior to LP had abnormal formulae. This fact suggests a transient...

...Reiner Benecke; Bastian Conrad; Jürgen Klingelhöfer Three patients, 2 with tardive dyskinesia and 1 with senile chorea, were successfully treated with corticosteroids during an observation period of up to 5 months. Permanent complete relief or pronounced improvement of the dyskinesias was observed...

.... Corticosteroids Methylprednisolone Brain tumors Eur. Neurol. 24: 23-32 (1985) © 1985 S. Karger AG. Basel 0 0 14 -3 022/85/0241-0023S2.75/0 Effect of Large Doses of Méthylprednisolone on Supratentorial Intracranial Tumors A Clinical and CAT Scan Evaluation Ramón Leiguarda'ib . Jorge Sierra* *, Carlos Pardalc...

.... Cytostatic drugs Vasculitis nervous system Corticosteroids Arteritis temporalis Small vessel vasculitis Systemic lupus erythematosus Polyarteritis nodosa Eur. Neurol. 23: 407-409 ( 1984) ©I984S. Karger ACi. Basel (X)14-3022/84 (I236-0407S2.75 « Cytostatic Drugs in the Treatment of Severe...

... in multiple sclerosis patients. It was also shown that these EEG abnormalities were not due to corticosteroid administration. 4 12 1973 11 12 1973 23 1 2008 © 1974 S. Karger AG, Basel 1974 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part...

...F.G.A. van der Meché; P.A. van Doorn The Guillain-Barré syndrome and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy are the most extensively studied immune-mediated neuropathies. Randomized treatment studies have been performed with corticosteroids, plasma exchange and more recently with high...