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In what clinical scenario would you consider the use of budesonide over prednisone as part of the pharmacologic management of autoimmune hepatitis?

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Hepatology · UC San Diego Health

Primarily in patients where the side effects of prednisone will or are too difficult to tolerate (diabetics, weight gain, metabolic syndrome, psychiatric disease, etc). I like to try prednisone first because of its ability to elucidate a biochemical response, fairly rapidly, so we know what we are d...

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