An investigation into the need for supplementary steroids in organ transplant patients undergoing gingival surgery: A double-blind, split-mouth, cross-over study

Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 577-582

  Thomason, J M ^a,c   Girdler, N M ^a   Kendall Taylor, P ^a   Wastell, H ^b   Weddel, A ^b   Seymour, R A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticosteroids; Gingivectomy; Organ transplantation; Steroid cover

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DENTAL CARE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GINGIVA OVERGROWTH; GINGIVECTOMY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DENTAL CARE FOR CHRONICALLY ILL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GINGIVAL OVERGROWTH; GINGIVECTOMY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 0033190682     PISSN: 03036979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-051X.1999.260903.x     Document Type: Article

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