Gastrointestinal complication of high-dose corticosteroid therapy in acute cerebrovascular patients.
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke
- Vol. 10 (2) , 208-210
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.10.2.208
Abstract
Corticosteroids are commonly used in the treatment of stroke, although their clinical effectiveness has not been established. Side effects, especially gastrointestinal complications, occur in patients with cerebral disease. A necroscopy study of 124 patients investigated the occurrence of gastrointestinal lesions in patients with acute stroke treated with high-dose of corticosteroids compared to untreated patients with stroke and to patients dying from non-vascular neurological diseases. A significant relationship between the use of steroids and gastrointestinal lesion in strokes is demonstrated.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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