Steroid induced osteonecrosis: An analysis of steroid dosing risk

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 721-743

  Powell, Christian ^a   Chang, Christopher ^b   Naguwa, Stanley M ^a   Cheema, Gurtej ^a   Gershwin, M Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; Avascular necrosis; Bone death; Corticosteroids; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETAMETHASONE; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; CORTISONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUOCINOLONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; MOMETASONE FUROATE; PARAMETHASONE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TRIAMCINOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BONE NECROSIS; BRAIN EDEMA; CUSHING SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENCY; ECZEMA; FEMUR HEAD; HEMOPHILIA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; OSTEONECROSIS; STEROIDS;

EID: 77956190013     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2010.06.007     Document Type: Review

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