Objective: To determine the effects of low-dose prolonged methylprednisolone infusion on lung function in patients with early severe ARDS. Design: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

The EXP group was infiltrated in the area where the iliotibial band crosses the lateral femoral condyle with 40 mg methylprednisolone acetate mixed with a short acting local anaesthetic, and the CON ...

For moderate or severe disease, the use of methylprednisolone pulses or high-dose oral steroids followed by rapid reduction of oral steroids to low maintenance doses, combined with safe ...

COP (formerly bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia) causes respiratory symptoms, with pulmonary infiltrates that usually respond well to therapy, but it is often misdiagnosed. This review ...

IN a previous communication 1, evidence was presented that an enzyme system, isolated from pig heart, catalysed the oxidation of acetate to succinate.Aconitase, assayed by the method of Racker 2 ...

Twenty-one patients with rheumatoid arthritis received injections of either 40 mg or 80 mg of methylprednisolone acetate into one or both knee joints. Serum methylprednisolone and cortisol levels were ...

Delayed cerebral ischemia is a major predictor of poor outcomes in patients who suffer subarachnoid hemorrhage. Treatment options are limited and often ineffective despite many years of investigation ...

† Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, P.R. China ‡ Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical ...

was more frequently effective or tolerated than intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). We now retrospectively compared ...