Treatment with Methotrexate and Low-dose Corticosteroids in Sarcoidosis Patients with Cardiac Lesions

Sonoko Nagai; Takafumi Yokomatsu; Kiminobu Tanizawa; Kohei Ikezoe; Tomohiro Handa

doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.53.0794

Treatment with Methotrexate and Low-dose Corticosteroids in Sarcoidosis Patients with Cardiac Lesions

Sonoko Nagai, Takafumi Yokomatsu, Kiminobu Tanizawa, Kohei Ikezoe, Tomohiro Handa, Yutaka Ito, Shunpei Ogino, Takateru Izumi

The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (2014) • Volume 53, Issue 5, Pages 427-433

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Abstract

Weekly methotrexate therapy with daily small doses of corticosteroids stabilized the EF, CTR and NT-proBNP levels in the serum without eliciting adverse effects longitudinally.

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DOI

10.2169/internalmedicine.53.0794

Language

English

Topic

Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research

Keywords

Medicine, Methotrexate, Combination therapy, Ejection fraction, Adverse effect, Prednisolone, Internal medicine, Sarcoidosis, Natriuretic peptide, Corticosteroid, Brain natriuretic peptide, Surgery, Cardiology, Heart failure

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January 1, 2014

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121 citations

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4.74

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Treatment with Methotrexate and Low-dose Corticosteroids in Sarcoidosis Patients with Cardiac Lesions

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