Editorial: Corticosteroids for recurrent pericarditis on the road to evidence-based medicine

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 612-613

  Shabetai, Ralph ^a  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Editorials; Pericarditis; Pericardium; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLAGEN DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRESSLER SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; PERICARDITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOLOGY; NOTE; STANDARD;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CARDIOLOGY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PERICARDITIS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 50349092242     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.795567     Document Type: Editorial

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