Kuppermann, MD, PhD, shares positive data on the dexamethasone intravitreal implant for diabetic macular edema. The retrospective analysis included 167 patients with a suboptimal response to anti ...

Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(24):2347-2357. Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e ...

Let’s look specifically at dexamethasone, a common corticosteroid in emergency medicine, and use current research to describe what the drug does and look at select situations in prehospital care ...

Department of Child Health, University of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE2 7LX Dr Sailesh Kotecha. If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

A prednisone taper gradually reduces your corticosteroid dose over days, weeks, or months to prevent prednisone withdrawal. Stopping prednisone abruptly can lead to adrenal insufficiency, which causes ...

1State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese ...