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Treatment with low-dose prednisone in refractory obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome: A retrospective cohort study and meta-analysis.

Leyre Riancho-ZarrabeitiaLaura Lopez-MarinPedro Muñoz CachoMarcos López-HoyosRafael Del BarrioAna HayaVíctor M Martínez-Taboada
Published in: Lupus (2022)
The efficacy of low-dose glucocorticoids in addition to the standard therapy in patients with refractory oAPS should be confirmed in well-designed clinical trials. However, high doses of steroids significantly increase the frequency of maternal and fetal morbidities, making their use strongly inadvisable.
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