The Treatment of Postmyocardial Infarction Shoulder-Hand Syndrome With Local Hydrocortisone

1 June 1954

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine

Vol. 15 (6) , 508-511
https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1954.11711637

Abstract

In a series of 18 consecutive cases of the shoulder-hand syndrome, a causalgic state which is one of the sequelae of acute myocardial infarction, favorable results were obtained by infections of hydrocortisone in trigger areas about the shoulder girdle.

Keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX/HORMONES
MYOCARDIAL INFARCT/COMPLICATIONS
SHOULDER/DISEASES

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

HYDROCORTISONE AND CORTISONE INJECTED INTO ARTHRITIC JOINTS
JAMA, 1951
THE SHOULDER-HAND SYNDROME IN REFLEX DYSTROPHY OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1948