Efficiency of prednisolone therapy in patients with Duchenne/Becker progressive muscular dystrophy
The paper gives a statistical analysis of a prospective study conducted at the Department of Cardiovascular System Pathology, Moscow Research Institute of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, in 1994 to 2011, which has enrolled 342 patients with Duchenne/Becker progressive muscular dystrophy. Split-course therapy with low-dose prednisolone in this category of patients has been found to exert a positive effect as longer walk unaided.