The effect of short-term prophylactic methylprednisolone on the incidence and severity of postpericardiotomy syndrome in children undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1700-1706

  Mott, Antonio R ^a   Fraser, Charles D ^a   Kusnoor, Anita V ^a   Martin Giesecke, N ^b   Reul, George J ^b   Drescher, Kathy L ^a   Watrin, Carmen H ^a   O'Brian Smith E ^a   Feltes, Timothy F ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; POSTPERICARDIOTOMY SYNDROME; PREMEDICATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035036155     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01223-2     Document Type: Article

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