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What is your approach to tapering chronic steroids in patients who are at high risk of HPA suppression?

For example, patients who have been maintained on 5mg of prednisone for years without previous tapering attempts and the rheumatic disease is not acti...

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How do you approach treatment of PMR in a patient who has had avascular necrosis of the hip after starting steroids?

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When tapering moderate to high doses of long term steroids do you routinely monitor for adrenal insufficiency?

Do you attempt to taper fully or maintain at a low dose?

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What is your approach to patients with PMR on steroids over a prolonged initial course who start to experience weakness concerning for steroid myopathy?

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Current medical research and opinion, 2016-12

Corticosteroids: the knee jerk response.

Open access rheumatology : research and reviews, 2016

Polymyalgia rheumatica: observations of disease evolution without corticosteroid treatment.

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