Corticosteroids improve short-term survival in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis (AH): Individual data analysis of the last three randomized placebo controlled double blind trials of corticosteroids in severe AH

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 480-487

  Mathurin, Philippe ^a,g   Mendenhall, Charles L ^b   Carithers Jr, Robert L ^c   Ramond, Marie Jose ^d   Maddrey, Willis C ^e   Garstide, Peter ^b   Rueff, Bernard ^d   Naveau, Sylvie ^a   Chaput, Jean Claude ^a   Poynard, Thierry ^f  

^a HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^d BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^f PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^g LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alcoholic hepatitis; Corticosteroids; Short term survival

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; BILIRUBIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036105350     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(01)00289-6     Document Type: Article

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