Prompt therapy reduces the duration of systemic corticosteroids in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1641-1642

  Kitaichi, Nobuyoshi ^a   Horie, Yukihiro ^a   Ohno, Shigeaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE;

CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LETTER; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOGT KOYANAGI SYNDROME;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PREDNISOLONE; UVEOMENINGOENCEPHALITIC SYNDROME;

EID: 54049156431     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0869-5     Document Type: Letter

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