Clinical Study
Adverse Effects of Systemic Immunosuppression in Keratolimbal Allograft
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 |
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