Article:Dexamethasone pulse therapy in dermatology

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Dexamethasone pulse therapy in dermatology PG is mentioned here along with sarcoidosis. The first report of the use of dexamethasone pulse therapy for a

dermatological disease appeared in the pages of this journal two

decades ago.[1]

At that time, it represented a radical change in the approach to skin

diseases as pulse therapy had previously been used mainly to prevent

transplant rejection and in the treatment of lupus nephritis.[2],[3] The therapy has since been used to treat a very large number of patients at several centers in India[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11] and elsewhere.[12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[17] This issue of the journal carries three articles describing the use of pulse therapy and its variants.