...Keisuke Watanabe; Nobuyuki Horita; Yu Hara; Nobuaki Kobayashi; Takeshi Kaneko Backgrounds: Recent studies have reported increased risks of adverse events from systemic corticosteroids even with only low-dose or short-term use. Some patients with asthma experience complications requiring systemic...

... available to support or to oppose corticosteroid treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. Objective: To investigate the efficacy and safety of corticosteroid given to the hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Methods: This was a prospective, multicenter, single-blind, randomized...

..., acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval. Fig. 8. Forest plots of studies comparing the percentage of Corticosteroid use. EOS, eosinophilic; AECOPD, acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; OR, odds ratio; CI...

... allo-HSCT and evaluate the effect of the high-dose corticosteroid strategy on DAH. Methods: A retrospective nested case-control study was designed. Cases with DAH and controls matched for year of allo-HSCT and length of follow-up were identified from a cohort of 597 patients who underwent allo-HSCT...

... was discontinued. Rechallenge with PTU produced recurrent pleural effusion. Therapy with PTU was again terminated, and treatment with methimazole and a brief course of low-dose corticosteroids were begun. Chest radiography revealed disappearance of the effusion within 10 days and it did not recur during a 1-year...

...Hideyo Nakamura; Hiroto Matsuse; Yasushi Obase; Kazuko Mitsuta; Shinya Tomari; Sachiko Saeki; Tetsuya Kawano; Yuki Kondo; Ikuko Machida; Terufumi Shimoda; Sadahiro Asai; Shigeru Kohno Background: Corticosteroids form an important component of the treatment of acute asthma. Systemic anaphylactic...