The aim of this study was to compare the mid-term outcome of patients receiving intramuscular methyl prednisolone before and after the procedure of coronary artery stenting. The study was conducted during 2007 and 2008 and compared the two arms of the study for the rate of restenosis six months after stenting. The control arm (100 patients) received only the usual preventive measures but the gl...

Both diabetes mellitus and pulmonary tuberculosis were regarded as-contraindications to cortico-steroid therapy when such treatment first became available. Steroids have now become standard adjuvant therapy to the usual anti-tuberculous drugs in most cases of fulminant pulmonary tuberculosis and the Tuberculosis Society of Scotland report (I957, 1958) confirmed the value of such combined treatm...

Four patients with proliferative glomerulonephritis due to systemic lupus erythematosus were treated with intravenous methyl prednisolone 'pulse' therapy. In all, eight courses of therapy were given, three for acute oliguric renal failure; and on each occasion there was a good response to the treatment. Clinical, histological and immunological details of the patients are presented. The diagnosi...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in middle aged women. Seroma formation claimed to be a very problem after axillary dissection patients with breast cancer. Aim: To conduct this study see if injecting methyl prednisolone can improve post-operative outcomes modified radical mastectomy terms seroma Methods: This Study design randomized control trial, done at Surgical Dep...

Üsküdar Teke and colleagues originally used 1 mg kg–1 day–1 methylprednisolone (MDMP) for their patient with autoimmune hemolytic anemia without improvement, and after 3 weeks of steroid treatment splenic infarct developed. The patient was splenectomized but the hemolytic anemia again did not improve. Therefore, azathioprine was prescribed [1]. A 36-year-old woman with severe autoimmune hemolyt...

The present manuscript describes simple, sensitive, rapid, accurate, precise and economical spectrophotometric method for the simultaneous determination of prednisolone acetate and ofloxacin in combined eye drop dosage form. The method is based on the simultaneous equations method for analysis of both the drugs using methanol as solvent. Prednisolone acetate has absorbance maxima at 243 nm and ...