Tag: corticosteroids

1. In children age 5 to 11 with mild-to-moderate persistent asthma treated with daily inhaled glucocorticoids, quintupling the dose of ...

1. Patients with septic shock in the intensive care unit (ICU) undergoing mechanical ventilation receiving hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone had a ...

1. In patients with first presentation of optic neuritis, treatment with intravenous methylprednisolone followed by oral prednisone resulted in faster ...

1. In this double blind, randomized controlled trial, intra-articular triamcinolone injections did not prevent cartilage degeneration compared to saline injection ...

1. Single glucocorticoid injections provided symptomatic relief from chronic low back pain after one month. 2. No differences in low ...

1. In this randomized controlled study of acute lumbar radiculopathy, oral prednisone improved function at weeks 3 and 52 when ...

 1. The majority of patients using pimecrolimus cream (PIM, 52.6%) or topical corticosteroids (TCS, 50.5%) for the treatment of mild ...

In this section, we highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the past week. A ...

1. Compared to the use of long-acting β-agonists (LABAs) alone, combination therapy with LABAs and inhaled steroids resulted in a ...

1. In women who delivered prematurely after 22 weeks’ gestation and were eligible for tocolytic drugs, only 18% received both ...