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F Femiano1, F Gombos, C Scully
1Stomatology Clinic, II University of Medicine and Surgery, Naples, Italy. femiano@libero.it
Background:
Pemphigus vulgaris is a potentially life-threatening disease characterized by cutaneous and mucosal blistering. Systemic corticosteroids remain the mainstay of therapy, transforming an invariably fatal disease into one with a mortality that is now less than 10%. Nevertheless, oral lesions are often recalcitrant and corticosteroid therapy can provoke adverse effects.
Objective:
To determine whether two different regimens of systemic corticosteroid therapy based on prednisone gave different benefits.
Method:
We examined two different regimens of systemic corticosteroid therapy based on prednisone in an open study. Ten patients (group A) were treated with systemic corticosteroids, in a therapeutic protocol made up of orally administered prednisone. Ten matched patients (group B) were treated with systemic corticosteroids alternating a pulse of intravenous betamethasone with orally administered prednisone.
Results And Conclusions:
The pulse protocol appeared to have some advantages both in a shorter time to resolution of symptoms and oral lesions, and in terms of minor adverse effects.
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