Anti-inflammatory treatment for carditis in acute rheumatic fever

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Cilliers, Antoinette ^a   Adler, Alma J ^b   Saloojee, Haroon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTISONE; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ACNE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDITIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; META ANALYSIS; MOON FACE; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH ULCER; STRIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TINNITUS; VOMITING; MYOCARDITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ASPIRIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MYOCARDITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STEROIDS;

EID: 84945367096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003176.pub3     Document Type: Review

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