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How do you mitigate the risk of renal crisis from corticosteroids in a patient with UCTD?

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Rheumatology · Johns Hopkins University
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I assume that this patient with UCTD has some scleroderma features (like a scleroderma-specific antibody) that are raising the concern for a renal crisis. If the patient is in the scleroderma spectrum, there probably is some risk, albeit probably low unless they have high-risk features (early, diffu...

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