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  • Title: Effect of alternate-day steroids on renal transplant function. A controlled study.
    Author: McDonald FD, Horensten ML, Mayor GB, Turcotte JG, Selezinka W, Schork MA.
    Journal: Nephron; 1976; 17(6):415-29. PubMed ID: 796739.
    Abstract:
    A randomized, controlled study of the effect of alternate-day prednisone therapy on renal transplant recipients was done on 53 patients followed for 610 patient months. There was no difference between the 17 recipients of related donor organs who received alternate-day prednisone (experimentals) and their 15 controls who received daily prednisone nor between the 11 experimental and 10 control recipients of cadaver donor organs as regards: rejections per patient month, change in serum creatinine, doses of azathioprine or prednisone, or weight. Likewise the controls and experimentals of the related and cadaver groups did not seem different in either their blood pressure change or their tendency to lose their Cushingoid facies. Alternate-day steroids had no obvious effect on the development of posterior subcapsular cataracts in either related or cadaver organ recipients.
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