purpose: to evaluate the effect of oral prednisolone on visual outcome and complications of scleral buckling (sb) in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (rrd). methods: in a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial, patients with acute rrd who underwent sb were randomly divided into two groups. oral prednisolone was administered for the treatment group and placebo for the co...

A 56-year-old woman with a 9-month history of ulcerative colitis (UC) who had been treated prednisolone (PSL) 40 mg/day and azathioprinefor 2 months was referred to our hospital because fever dyspnea. Computed tomography (CT) the chest revealed diffuse ground-glass opacities in both lungs consolidation lower lobes. PCR patient's bronchoalveolar lavage fluid positive for pneumocystis jirovecii, ...

Eosinophilic granuloma is an uncommon bone tumour consisting of circumscribed lesions the reticuloendothelial system usually confined to bone. We present a case report 28-year-old male who complaints swelling over proximal end radius associated with pain for duration 1 year. The patient was successfully treated open biopsy followed curettage and intralesional methyl prednisolone injection using...

background considering the inadequacies of current therapeutic regimens for infantile spasms (is), and the frequent and serious side effects of  some regimens, the ongoing search for more enhanced protocols is understandable. materials and methods: we have compared the therapeutic and adverse effects of vitamin b6 given in high doses with those of prednisolone in a randomized controlled clinica...

backgrounds : new- onset diabetes after transplantation (nodat) is a serious complication which runs the risk of infections, morbidity and mortality. older age, male sex, immunosuppressive agents and hepatitis c are reported as risk factors. the focus of this research is evaluating some demographic and clinical factors in development of nodat in hepatic transplanted patients. this study aims to...

A middle aged female patient, a case of Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome with renal tubular acidosis as revealed by severe hypokalemia along with normal anion gap, metabolic acidosis and acidic urinary pH had brain stem lesion which presented as quadriplegia, dysphagia and dysarthria. Laboratory tests revealed that anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) and anti Ro/SSA antibodies were positive. MRI showed hyp...

Twenty patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were treated with methyl prednisolone pulse therapy (MPPT) and followed up for up to 24 weeks (mean 18 weeks). Beneficial effects of MPPT were observed principally on arthralgia, pleuritic pain, vasculitic skin rash, pyrexia, and lymphadenopathy. The serological tests showing the most improvement were ds DNA binding and the serum C3...

Accepted modes of therapy in acute disseminated encephalomyelitis include intravenous methyl prednisolone, intravenous immunoglobulin or a combination of both. Effectiveness of plasmapheresis has been demonstrated by previous case reports. We report two patients with steroid non-responsive acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in which plasmapheresis resulted in complete clinical and radiologica...