{"id":12608,"date":"2025-01-27T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/?p=12608"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:42:49","slug":"pyoderma-gangrenosum-igum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/pyoderma-gangrenosum-igum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyoderma gangrenosum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-036f609a813ebf7c494f7208c56cbbdc\" style=\"color:#477d6c\"><strong>Recommended Indications in which IG can be used<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e491adb0e5625113ecae0d8f6fec11a9\" style=\"background-color:#a5cbbf\"><strong>Order Number: D2-PG<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/td><td>IG may be considered in patients with significant pyoderma gangrenosum, as diagnosed by a dermatologist, when other therapies are ineffective or contraindicated. The diagnostic criteria for pyoderma gangrenosum should be met, and the relevant differential diagnoses (i.e., infections) must be excluded.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Dose\/Frequency of Administration<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Induction: <\/strong>2 g\/kg adjusted body weight divided over 2 to 5 days. <br><br><strong>Maintenance:<\/strong> 1 to 2 g\/kg adjusted body weight divided over 2 days, every 4 weeks for 4 to 6 cycles. If there is no clinical response after 3 to 6 treatment cycles, IVIG should be discontinued.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended Indications in which IG can be used<\/p>\n<p>Order Number: D2-PG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dermatology-indications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transfusionontario.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}