High-Dose Intramuscular Triamcinolone in Severe, Chronic, Life-Threatening Asthma
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- 28 February 1991
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 324 (9) , 585-589
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199102283240903
Abstract
Despite oral corticosteroid therapy, some patients with asthma have frequent exacerbations requiring emergency room visits, hospitalization, and occasionally, mechanical ventilation. We compared the effects of high-dose intramuscular triamcinolone with oral prednisone in patients with severe chronic asthma.Keywords
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