Klinicist (Jul 2014)

GLUCOCORTICOIDS IN THE THERAPY OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

  • T. M. Reshetnyak,
  • N. V. Seredavkina,
  • I. S. Dydykina,
  • E. I. Nasonov

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 3-4
pp. 14 – 26

Abstract

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Despite a more than fifty-year period after the introduction of glucocorticoids (GCs) into therapeutic practice; they have headed the list of anti-inflammatory drugs so far. The paper analyzes current views on the terminology of GCs, mechanism of action, standardization of indications for their use in systemic lupus erythematosus, choice of a dose and a regimes of the drugs, as well as the rates of their decrease; the authors also review Russian and foreign literature on this problem and their own data.

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