Glucocorticoid therapy in childhood
Butenandt, O.
Fortschritte der Medizin 109(23): 455-459
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0015-8178 PMID: 1916578 Document Number: 4180
In children, too, treatment with glucocorticoids may occasionally be necessary. On the one hand, replacement treatment in children with the adrenogenital syndrome, on the other pharmacotherapy in a number of diseases may be required. The latter include the genuine nephrotic syndrome, autoimmunological diseases, hypsarrhythmia, and, in the field of neonatology and neonatological intensive care, the treatment of the respiratory distress syndrome and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Side effects of pharmacotherapy include suppression of the adrenal cortical function and growth disorders, together with truncal obesity, formation of striae of distension or osteoporosis.
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