Principles of acute treatment of temporal arteritis. Place of high-dose corticosteroid therapy;Les principes du traitement d' attaque de la maladie de horton. Place des assauts cortisoniques

Annales de Medecine Interne

Volumn 149, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 448-453

  Barrier, Jacques Henri ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Bolus methylprednisolone; Corticosteroid therapy; Temporal arteritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BONE AND BONES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG MONITORING; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; STEROIDS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032410787     PISSN: 0003410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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