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How do you adjust chronic outpatient steroid therapy when myasthenia gravis patients are admitted for crisis?

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Neurology · University of Minnesota

1.) It is important to figure out what triggered the crisis. If it was triggered by a recent, active infection (especially bacterial), it is not a good idea to increase the steroid dose. I would actually attempt to taper the prednisone slowly after IVIG or PLEX is initiated for treatment of the MG c...

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