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Risk-benefit analysis of isoniazid monotherapy to prevent tuberculosis in patients with rheumatic diseases exposed to prolonged, high-dose glucocorticoids
2020-04-01
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Objective To investigate the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in patients with rheumatic diseases receiving high-dose glucocorticoids and to evaluate the preventive effect of isoniazid (INH). Methods This study included 1618 treatment episodes of prolonged (≥4 weeks), high-dose steroids (≥30mg/day of prednisone) in 1160 patients. Of these, INH was administered in 152 (9.4%) treatment epis...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b42fe33a-bf1b-5b26-a484-2d955207c31e
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-19783/v1
