Alopecia areata progressing to totalis/universalis in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (type II): Failure of dexamethasone-cyclophosphamide pulse therapy

Optimum Insulin Therapy in Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus *

However, it has also been recognized that the treatment of NIDDM patients frequently is inadequate even in those patients who should achieve the target range. In a recent population based cohort the median of glycosylated haemoglobin was 10.2% in NIDDM patients treated with diet or oral hypoglycemic agents (OHA) and 11.8% in NIDDM patients who used insulin. In a 5 year follow-up study of NIDDM ...

comparison of oral prednisolone pulse therapy with intravenous methyl prednisolone pulse therapy in severe alopecia areata

Dexamethasone-cyclophosphamide pulse therapy in pemphigus.

Fifty patients with pemphigus (45 pemphigus vulgaris, 5 pemphigus foliaceus) were treated with dexamethasone-cyclophosphamide pulse therapy. The pulse consisted of 136 mg dexamethasone dissolved in 5% dextrose given in a drip over a period of 1-2 hours on 3 consecutive days. In addition, 500 mg cyclophosphamide was added in the drip on the first day. Such pulses were given at monthly intervals....

Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) occurs predominantly after the age of 50 years but is not easy to distinguish from late onset insulin-dependent diabetes. It is likely that misclassification is rare in a Caucasian population. Whilst NIDDM is widely believed to be genetically determined, recent epidemiological observations have consistently revealed statistical associations betwee...

Systemic sclerosis and dexamethasone cyclophosphamide pulse therapy.

Sir, There have been quite a few instances where the physician or may be even a dermatologist (mis) advices a patient having systemic sclerosis that there is no satisfactory treatment for this disease, as has also been done in the paper ‘Therapeutic trials for systemic sclerosis: An update’ by Sardana and Garg.[1] Such patients often feel frustrated and disappointed, till another dermatologist ...