Table 3.
Proportion of patients in remission and median time to relapses in treatment responders
| Treatment responders | Prednisolone N = 38 |
Dexamethasone N = 25 |
MPS N = 12 |
Total N = 75 |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients in remission, N (%) (95% CI) | 25 (66%) (50–82%) | 16 (64%) (44–84%) | 5 (42%) (9–74%) | 46 (61%) (50–73%) | 0.343 |
| Median follow-up of patients reaching remission (range in months) | 31 (1–180) | 93 (17–197) | 19 (2–45) | 55 (1–197) | |
| Median time to relapse (range in months) | 0 (0–30) | 6 (0–51) | 0 (0–12) | 4 (0–51) | |
| < 6 months, N | 9 | 6 | 5 | 20 | |
| > 6 months, N (range in months) | 4 (7–30) | 3 (24–51) | 2 (8–12) | 9 (7–51) |
MPS methylprednisolone