Digital ischaemia as a presenting feature in metastatic ovarian cancer.

A woman in her 50s presented with acute pain and discolouration in the fingertips of both hands, without other features of connective tissue disease. The history was otherwise significant for abdominal bloating, altered bowel habit, urinary urgency and fatigue. Inflammatory markers, antinuclear antibodies, serum protein electrophoresis and complement levels were all normal.

Development of an evidence-based regimen of prednisolone to treat giant cell arteritis - the Norwich regimen.

We have reviewed the literature to form a bespoke regimen for daily oral prednisolone (DP) in GCA. Initial DP in clinical trials is 40-60 mg daily, but relapse rates are 67-92%. Cumulative prednisolone (CP) of 3.