Megadose Methylprednisolone (MDMP) Treatment in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Resistant to Conventional Corticosteroid Administration: A Case Report

A female in the Netherlands with severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) was treated with conventional corticosteroid (2 mg/kg/d in divided doses) and blood transfusions for 18 months without improvement. The presented patient responded to megadose methylprednisolone (MDMP) 30 mg/kg/d for 3 d, fol...

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Autores principales: Özsoylu, Şinasi, Berenschot, Henriette WA
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24385786
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/Tjh.2012.0070
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description A female in the Netherlands with severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) was treated with conventional corticosteroid (2 mg/kg/d in divided doses) and blood transfusions for 18 months without improvement. The presented patient responded to megadose methylprednisolone (MDMP) 30 mg/kg/d for 3 d, followed by 20 mg/kg for 4 d, and subsequently 10, 5, 2, and 1 mg/kg/d each for 1 week. Conflict of interest:None declared.
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spelling pubmed-38784732014-01-02 Megadose Methylprednisolone (MDMP) Treatment in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Resistant to Conventional Corticosteroid Administration: A Case Report Özsoylu, Şinasi Berenschot, Henriette WA Turk J Haematol Case Report A female in the Netherlands with severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) was treated with conventional corticosteroid (2 mg/kg/d in divided doses) and blood transfusions for 18 months without improvement. The presented patient responded to megadose methylprednisolone (MDMP) 30 mg/kg/d for 3 d, followed by 20 mg/kg for 4 d, and subsequently 10, 5, 2, and 1 mg/kg/d each for 1 week. Conflict of interest:None declared. Galenos Publishing 2013-06 2013-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3878473/ /pubmed/24385786 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/Tjh.2012.0070 Text en © Turkish Journal of Hematology, Published by Galenos Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Megadose Methylprednisolone (MDMP) Treatment in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Resistant to Conventional Corticosteroid Administration: A Case Report
title Megadose Methylprednisolone (MDMP) Treatment in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Resistant to Conventional Corticosteroid Administration: A Case Report
title_full Megadose Methylprednisolone (MDMP) Treatment in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Resistant to Conventional Corticosteroid Administration: A Case Report
title_fullStr Megadose Methylprednisolone (MDMP) Treatment in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Resistant to Conventional Corticosteroid Administration: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Megadose Methylprednisolone (MDMP) Treatment in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Resistant to Conventional Corticosteroid Administration: A Case Report
title_short Megadose Methylprednisolone (MDMP) Treatment in a Patient with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) Resistant to Conventional Corticosteroid Administration: A Case Report
title_sort megadose methylprednisolone (mdmp) treatment in a patient with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (aiha) resistant to conventional corticosteroid administration: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24385786
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/Tjh.2012.0070
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