Table 1: Oral immunosuppression therapy regimen.

Class Starting dose Medication Number of patients Avg. duration (months) Corticosteroid 1 mg/kg/day Prednisone 16 12.8 (Median:10, Range: 3–25) Calcineurin inhibitor 3-4 mg/kg/day Cyclosporine 4 13.7 (Range: 4–19) 2–4 mg BID Tacrolimus 10 17.8 (Range: 5–25) Antimetabolite 100–150 mg/day Azathioprine 2 5.7 (Range: 1–16) 500–1000 mg BID Mycophenolate mofetil 12 16.9 (Range: 5–39) IL-2 inhibitor 2 mg/day Sirolimus 1 22