Difficulties in treating steroid withdrawal: intermittent ACTH and low dose systemic cyclosporin used to treat a senile erythroderma patient.

The tapering or termination of prolonged strong topical and/or systemic corticosteroid application for extensive generalized eczema has adverse effects on the body and thus presents a very difficult situation. The present case is that of a 68-year-old man with erythroderma following eczema, whose steroid withdrawal was successfully treated with intermittent ACTH and low dose systemic cyclosporin administration over a period of one year.