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What dose and duration of steroid therapy do you employ while starting mycophenolate in an outpatient with relatively stable CTD-ILD?

Do you ever start mycophenolate without steroids?
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Do you ever start mycophenolate without steroids in outpatients with relatively stable CTD-ILD?

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Pulmonology · Massachusetts General Hospital
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This is a great question since it raises some important concepts about treatment response in this patient population. Providers often talk about the presence or absence of a steroid-responsive process, and if so, whether a steroid-sparing agent would be beneficial. My bias is to avoid steroids in an...

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