DEPO-MEDROL (methylprednisolone acetate)


Drug overview for DEPO-MEDROL (methylprednisolone acetate):

Generic name: methylprednisolone acetate (METH-il-pred-NIS-oh-lone AS-e-tate)
Drug class: Glucocorticosteroids
Therapeutic class: Endocrine

Methylprednisolone is a synthetic glucocorticoid.

Methylprednisolone and its derivatives are used principally as anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressant agents. Because methylprednisolone has only minimal mineralocorticoid properties, the drug is inadequate alone for the management of adrenocortical insufficiency. If methylprednisolone is used in the treatment of this condition, concomitant therapy with a mineralocorticoid also is required.

Methylprednisolone has been used as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of serious complications from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)+. Patients with severe COVID-19 may develop a systemic inflammatory response that can result in lung injury and multisystem organ dysfunction. The potent anti-inflammatory effects of corticosteroids (e.g., methylprednisolone) may prevent or mitigate these deleterious effects. For additional information, see Uses: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), in the Corticosteroids General Statement 68:04.
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The following indications for DEPO-MEDROL (methylprednisolone acetate) have been approved by the FDA:

Indications:
Acute gouty arthritis
Acute lymphoid leukemia
Acute rheumatic carditis
Adrenocortical insufficiency
Adrenogenital disorder
Angioedema
Ankylosing spondylitis
Atopic dermatitis
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Berylliosis
Bursitis
Cerebral edema
Contact dermatitis
Crohn's disease
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Diamond Blackfan anemia
Erythema multiforme
Exfoliative dermatitis
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy
Hypersensitivity drug reaction
Inflammatory bowel disease
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Loffler syndrome
Mycosis fungoides
Nephrotic syndrome
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Ocular inflammation
Pemphigus
Psoriatic arthritis
Pure red cell aplasia
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sarcoidosis
Serum sickness
Status asthmaticus
Synovitis
Systemic dermatomyositis
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Tendonitis
Tenosynovitis
Thyroiditis
Transfusion reaction urticaria
Trichinosis
Ulcerative colitis


Professional Synonyms:
Aase syndrome
Acquired hemolytic anemia due to antibodies
Acute articular gout
Acute gout attack
Acute gout flare
Acute lymphatic leukemia
Acute lymphocytic leukemia
Acute lymphogenous leukemia
Acute severe asthma attack
Acute severe asthma
Acute uratic arthritis
Adrenal cortical hypofunction
Adrenal failure
Adrenal insufficiency
Adrenocortical hypofunction
Adrenogenital syndrome
Allergic reaction to blood or plasma
Allergic transfusion reaction
Anemia lymphatica
Angioneurotic edema
Arthritis deformans
Arthrosis deformans
Asthma with status asthmaticus
Atopic eczema
Atrophedema
Axial spondyloarthritis with radiographic sacroiliitis
Bannister's disease
Bekhterev's arthritis
Bekhterev's disease
Bekhterev's spondylitis
Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease
Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann syndrome
Blackfan Diamond syndrome
Blistering skin disease
Boeck's disease
Boeck's sarcoid
Brain edema
Bullous dermatitis herpetiformis
Colitis ulcerativa
Congenital erythroid hypoplastic anemia
Congenital hypoplastic anemia
Congenital pure red cell aplasia
Constitutional erythroid hypoplasia
Dermatitis venenata
Disseminated lupus erythematosus
Disseminated neurodermatitis
Drug hypersensitivity reaction
Drug-induced hypersensitivity reaction
Drug-induced hypersensitivity
Erythema exfoliativa
Erythema polymorphe
Erythroderma exfoliativa
Erythrogenesis imperfecta
Exfoliative eczema
Exfoliative erythroderma
Giant urticaria
Hebra's disease
Herpes iris
Hodgkin's disease
Hypercalcemia associated with cancer
Hypercalcemia associated with malignancy
Hypercalcemia of malignancy
Hypoadrenalism
Hypocorticoidism
Inflammation of the synovial membrane
Inflammation of the synovium
Juvenile RA
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Loeffler syndrome
Loffler's syndrome
Lupus erythematosus syndrome
Lymphoblastic leukemia
Malignant hypercalcemia
Marie-Strumpell disease
Marie-Strumpell spondylitis
Milton's disease
Nodose rheumatism
Non-Hodgkin's type lymphoma
Ophthalmic inflammation
Periodic urticaria
PIE syndrome
Psoriasis arthropica
Psoriatic arthropathy
Quincke's disease
Quincke's edema
Regional enteritis
Regional ileocolitis
Rheumatic arthritis
Rheumatic gout
Rheumatoid spondylitis
Rhizomelic spondylitis
Rhizomelic spondylosis
Schaumann's syndrome
Serum sickness-like reaction
Severe asthma exacerbation
Simple pulmonary eosinophilia
Spondylosis deformans
Strumpell-Marie disease
Suprarenal failure
Tendinitis
Tendinous synovitis
Tendosynovitis
Tendovaginitis
Tenontolemmitis
Tenontothecitis
Tenovaginitis
Trichinella spiralis infection
Trichinellosis
Trichiniasis
Urticaria tuberosa
Urticarial transfusion reaction