The effect of adjunctive corticosteroids for the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia on mortality and subsequent complications

Chest

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1258-1263

  Gallant, Joel E ^a   Chaisson, Richard E ^a   Moore, Richard D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, glucocorticoids, HIV infection; Pneumocystis carinii, pneumonia

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0031734140     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.5.1258     Document Type: Article

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