2000
DOI: 10.1159/000008235
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Combined Therapy of Corticosteroid and Azathioprine in Hypertrophic Cranial Pachymeningitis

Abstract: Hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis (HCP) is a rare inflammatory disease of unknown origin in which recurrence is frequently observed in spite of the initial response to steroid therapy. Three patients, 1 man and 2 women, aged 63, 66, and 67 years, with severe intractable headache were evaluated by brain MRI. All patients were initially given prednisolone (60 mg/day, oral) or dexamethasone (20 mg/day, i.v.), and followed by long-term (at least 1 year) azathioprine therapy. All patients were evaluated by follo… Show more

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“…Fortunately, symptoms were alleviated by adjusting hormone dosage, suggesting that the pulse therapy is still effective for the hormone-dependent patients with recurrence. Choi et al (2000) believe that hormone therapy is effective, but it is easy to relapse and can result in drug dependence. Supplemented with immunosuppressive therapy, high-dose steroid pulse therapy could achieve a satisfactory clinical and imaging result (Rudnik et al, 2007).…”
Section: Diagnosis and Treatment Of Hcpmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Fortunately, symptoms were alleviated by adjusting hormone dosage, suggesting that the pulse therapy is still effective for the hormone-dependent patients with recurrence. Choi et al (2000) believe that hormone therapy is effective, but it is easy to relapse and can result in drug dependence. Supplemented with immunosuppressive therapy, high-dose steroid pulse therapy could achieve a satisfactory clinical and imaging result (Rudnik et al, 2007).…”
Section: Diagnosis and Treatment Of Hcpmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Corticosteroid therapy has been effective in alleviating the symptoms and arresting the progression of HCP, but a relapse frequently occurs when the dosage is tapered (2,3,10). The immunosuppressive drugs, such as azathioprine (3,26) and cyclophophamide (3,13), have shown variable efficacy. All of our six patients underwent corticosteroid therapy.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nur selten ist der intrakraniale Druck erhöht, wodurch zusätzlich Kopfschmerzen ausgelöst werden kön-nen [12,38]. Die Zephalgien sind in der Regel kontinuierlich vorhanden, dumpf-drückend, von starker Intensität und im Verlauf der Erkrankung oft progredient [5,11,19,20,37,39,45]. Seltener sind die Kopfschmerzen stechend oder haben pulsierenden Charakter.…”
Section: Klinische Symptomatikunclassified
“…Diese sind hier Therapie der ersten Wahl. Initial wird mindestens 1 mg Prednisolon/Tag pro kg Körpergewicht über mehrere Tage verabreicht, womit gute Erfolge erzielt werden [5,9,15,32]. Nach Besserung der Symptomatik oder Normalisierung sollte eine vorsichtige Reduktion der Kortisondosis erfolgen.…”
Section: Therapieunclassified
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