PREDNISONE INTENSOL (prednisone)


Drug overview for PREDNISONE INTENSOL (prednisone):

Generic name: PREDNISONE (PRED-ni-sone)
Drug class: Glucocorticosteroids
Therapeutic class: Endocrine

Prednisone is a synthetic glucocorticoid.

Prednisone is usually considered the oral glucocorticoid of choice for anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressant effects. Because it has only minimal mineralocorticoid properties, the drug is inadequate alone for the management of adrenocortical insufficiency. If prednisone is used in the treatment of this condition, concomitant therapy with a mineralocorticoid is also required.

Prednisone 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., prednisone) 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 PREDNISONE INTENSOL (prednisone) have been approved by the FDA:

Indications:
Acquired thrombocytopenia
Acute exacerbation of multiple sclerosis
Acute gouty arthritis
Acute lymphoid leukemia
Acute rheumatic carditis
Adrenocortical insufficiency
Adrenogenital disorder
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
Allergic rhinitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
Aspiration pneumonitis
Asthma exacerbation
Atopic dermatitis
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Berylliosis
Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia
Cerebral edema
Chronic lymphoid leukemia
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Contact dermatitis
Crohn's disease
Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Diamond Blackfan anemia
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis
Epicondylitis
Erythema multiforme
Erythroblastic anemia
Exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Exfoliative dermatitis
Follicular lymphoma
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy
Hypersensitivity drug reaction
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Inflammatory bowel disease
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Loffler syndrome
Mycosis fungoides
Nephrotic syndrome
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Ophthalmia sympathetic
Organ transplant rejection
Pemphigus
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Primary adrenocortical insufficiency
Psoriasis
Psoriatic arthritis
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Pure red cell aplasia associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Relapsing polychondritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sarcoidosis
Serum sickness
Severe persistent asthma
Sjogren's syndrome
Systemic dermatomyositis
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Thyroiditis
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis meningitis treatment adjunct
Ulcerative colitis
Uveitis
Vasculitis


Professional Synonyms:
Aase syndrome
Acquired hemolytic anemia due to antibodies
Acute articular gout
Acute exacerbation of MS
Acute gout attack
Acute gout flare
Acute lymphatic leukemia
Acute lymphocytic leukemia
Acute lymphogenous leukemia
Acute relapse of MS
Acute relapse of multiple sclerosis
Acute uratic arthritis
Acutely deteriorating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Addison melanoderma
Adrenal cortical hypofunction
Adrenal failure
Adrenal insufficiency
Adrenocortical hypofunction
Adrenogenital syndrome
Aggravation of asthma
Allergic alveolitis
Anemia lymphatica
Angiitis
Arthritis deformans
Arthrosis deformans
Asthenia pigmentosa
Atopic eczema
Axial spondyloarthritis with radiographic sacroiliitis
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
Chronic adrenocortical insufficiency
Chronic atrophic polychondritis
Colitis ulcerativa
Congenital erythroid hypoplastic anemia
Congenital hypoplastic anemia
Congenital pure red cell aplasia
Congenital suprarenal hyperplasia
Constitutional erythroid hypoplasia
Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
Deficiency in bone marrow erythroblasts
Dermatitis venenata
Disseminated lupus erythematosus
Disseminated neurodermatitis
Drug hypersensitivity reaction
Drug-induced hypersensitivity reaction
Drug-induced hypersensitivity
Erythema exfoliativa
Erythema polymorphe
Erythroblastopenia
Erythroderma exfoliativa
Erythrogenesis imperfecta
Exacerbation of asthma
Exacerbation of COPD
Exfoliative eczema
Exfoliative erythroderma
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
Follicular B-cell lymphoma
Follicular B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Generalized chondromalacia
Gougerot-Sjogren disease
Hebra's disease
Herpes iris
Hodgkin's disease
Hypercalcemia associated with cancer
Hypercalcemia associated with malignancy
Hypercalcemia of malignancy
Hypersensitivity pneumonia
Hypoadrenalism
Hypocorticoidism
Idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis
Immune thrombocytopenia purpura
Juvenile RA
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Loeffler syndrome
Loffler's syndrome
Lupus erythematosus syndrome
Lymphoblastic leukemia
Malignant hypercalcemia
Marie-Strumpell disease
Marie-Strumpell spondylitis
Melasma addisonii
Mendelson's syndrome
Meyenburg's disease
Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome
Multiple sclerosis exacerbation
Nodose rheumatism
Non-Hodgkin's type lymphoma
Organ transplant rejection reaction
PIE syndrome
Pneumocystis jirovecii (carinii) pneumonia
Pneumocystis pneumonia
Pneumocystosis jirovecii pneumonia
Post infectious thrombocytopenia
PRCA associated with CLL
Primary adrenal deficiency
Primary adrenal insufficiency
Primary corticoadrenal insufficiency
Primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
Primary failure adrenocortical insufficiency
Psoriasis arthropica
Psoriatic arthropathy
Pulmonary pneumocystosis
Pulmonary TB
Purpura hemorrhagica
Regional enteritis
Regional ileocolitis
Relapsing perichondritis
Rheumatic arthritis
Rheumatic gout
Rheumatoid spondylitis
Rhizomelic spondylitis
Rhizomelic spondylosis
Schaumann's syndrome
Secondary thrombocytopenia
Serum sickness-like reaction
Sicca syndrome
Simple pulmonary eosinophilia
Sjogren's disease
Small cerebriform cell lymphoma
Spondylosis deformans
Strumpell-Marie disease
Suprarenal failure
Sympathetic ophthalmia
Systemic chondromalacia
Transplant rejection
Trichinella spiralis infection
Trichinellosis
Trichiniasis
Von Meyenburg's disease
Werlhof's disease