Cardiac catheterization was performed as soon as possible when indicated.
It involves evaluation of symptoms, follow up of effect, adjustment of dose and monitoring over time as well as deprescribing when indicated [ 21, 28, 36].
These patients received additional corticosteroids as soon as possible when indicated; 12 patients received intravenous MP (10 mg/kg/day, divided two doses, at presentation, 5 mg/kg/day at next day and then tapered off within a week) and 5 patients received oral prednisolone (1 mg/kg/day, divided 3 doses, for 3 days tapered off within a week).
Data are expressed as number of cases except when indicated.
Therapists will also have access to a range of skills-based approaches, as have been used in previous studies, as and when indicated by the formulation, and a treatment manual is being produced which will be updated iteratively.
The diagnosis relied on duodenal biopsy and serology as well as HLA typing when indicated.
Ancillary tests including fundus fluorescein angiography, optical coherence tomography, or ultrasound biomicroscopy, and specific laboratory tests were done as and when indicated.
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and/ or array-comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) studies were carried out following standard approaches as and when indicated.
Treatment modifications because of adverse events were not considered as nonadherence/nonpersistence when indicated by a physician.
Sleep parameters were analyzed by ANOVA and the Tukey test was used as post hoc when indicated.
Data were expressed as median and interquartile range (IQR) or when indicated as absolute numbers and percentages.
