Cyclosporine Therapy Should Be Considered for Maintenance of Remission in Patients With Pemphigus

In a randomized trial published in the July issue of ARCHIVES, Ioannides¹ et al compared the effectiveness of corticosteroids alone with a combination of corticosteroids and cyclosporine in 33 hospitalized patients with pemphigus. The authors clearly demonstrated that adding cyclosporine to a corticosteroid treatment regimen had no advantage over corticosteroids alone in the acute phase of the disease.