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How long would you continue prednisone in an ESKD patient with a failed kidney transplant who develops mild graft pain when steroids are tapered?

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Typically when a patient develops pain over a failed allograft, we would try a PO pred pulse and a taper back down to 5mg daily. If, when the prednisone is low-dose or off completely, the pain recurs, you need to assess the risk/benefit for the patient of maintaining them on low dose steroid versus ...

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