Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Dongning Wu, Kenneth Bromberg, Roberto Jodorkovsky

“…We report two patients with SLE who were treated with steroids and immunosuppressive medication and then developed invasive Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections. …”
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A Prospective Single-Arm Cohort Study of Immune-mediated Seizures/Epilepsy Without Encephalopathy (ISEWE) in Children from a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India by Basavanagowda Thanuja, Mahesh Kamate

“…Relapses were more common if more than three ASMs were tried and less if steroids were started within 30 days. Immune-mediated seizures/epilepsy without encephalopathy is a new, important, and treatable entity. …”
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Risk Evaluation for the Formation of Gastroduodenal Erosion and Ulceration Induced by Meloxicam in Patients with Seropositive and Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis by R. A. Pavlyukov, M. R. Konorev

“…In this paper, the authors set out toascertain the prognostic value of the rheumatoid factor for the formation of gastroduodenal erosions and ulcers in patients with rheumatoid arthritis taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (meloxicam).Materials and methods. …”
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A Case of Primary Refractory Immune Thrombocytopenia: Challenges in Choice of Therapies by Hanyin Wang, Hande Tuncer

“…We present the case of a 29-year-old male with severe ITP refractory to initial standard therapy including steroids, IVIG, and subsequent splenectomy, who was treated with the combination therapy of rituximab, romiplostim, and mycophenolate and eventually developed thrombocytosis requiring plateletpheresis. …”
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Impact of corticosteroids on the efficacy of CD19/22 CAR-T cell therapy in pediatric patients with B-ALL: a single-center study by Jing Yang, Jing Zhang, Xinyu Wan, Jiaoyang Cai, Jiaoyang Cai, Tianyi Wang, Xiaomin Yang, Wenjie Li, Lixia Ding, Lili Song, Yan Miao, Xiang Wang, Yani Ma, Chengjuan Luo, Jingyan Tang, Longjun Gu, Jing Chen, Jun Lu, Yanjing Tang, Benshang Li

“…After eliminating the effect of consolidative transplantation on the prognosis, the EFS of the patients who did not use steroids was better (p = 0.037) in the LDB group, but the difference was not significant in the HDB group. …”
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Crusted Demodicosis in an Immunocompetent Pediatric Patient by Guillermo Antonio Guerrero-González, Maira Elizabeth Herz-Ruelas, Minerva Gómez-Flores, Jorge Ocampo-Candiani

“…The father referred chronic use of topical steroids. A potassium hydroxide mount of a pustule scraping revealed several D. folliculorum mites. …”
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Heparin-Related Thrombocytopenia Triggered by Severe Status of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Bacterial Infection by Satoshi Suzuki, Shihoko Nakajima, Taiki Ando, Keisuke Oda, Manabu Sugita, Kunimi Maeda, Yutaka Nakiri, Yoshinari Takasaki

“…A patient with severe lupus nephritis developed thrombocytopenia during treatment with high-dose steroids. In addition to viral- or disease-induced cytopenia, the pathology was believed to arise from diverse contributing factors, such as thrombotic microangiopathy and heparin-related thrombocytopenia (HIT). …”
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A critical review on chemical constituents and pharmacological effects of Lilium by Pengyu Wang, Jian Li, Fatma Alzahra K. Attia, Wenyi Kang, Jinfeng Wei, Zhenhua Liu, Changqin Li

“…Chemical researches showed that genus Lilium genus mainly contains steroidal saponins, polysaccharides, alkaloids and flavonoids. …”
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All That Bleeds Is Not Infliximab-Refractory Ulcerative Colitis by JK Law, B Salh, EM Yoshida

“…A case of a hospitalized patient with a new diagnosis of severe ulcerative colitis refractory to intravenous steroids is presented. The patient was treated with infliximab and discharged with clinical remission, but subsequently presented back to hospital with a lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage.…”
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A Rare Case of a Pure Testicular Seminoma Presenting 7 Years after a Pineal Germinoma by Usman Najeeb Bhatty, Mohammed Hayat Ashrafi, Caroline Mary Nicholson, Ahsanul Haq

“…A 37-year-old gentleman presented to urology after previously being treated for a pineal germinoma with steroids and radiotherapy. On routine followup, he described symptoms of a testicular seminoma. …”
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Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome as an Initial Presentation of ALK-Negative Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma by Laura S. Lourdes, Samer Z. Al-Quran, Nam H. Dang, Merry-Jennifer Markham

“…The SCLS resolved with treatment of the malignancy with steroids and chemotherapy.…”
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Orbital Lymphoma Masquerading as Orbital Cellulitis by B. D. Chaurasiya, Ganesh Agrawal, Santosh Chaudhary, Sangeeta Shah, Anju Pradhan, Poonam Lavaju

“…The case was diagnosed as left eye orbital cellulitis, and the patient was treated with broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics and oral steroids. No clinically discernible response was noted despite 7 days of antibiotics and steroids. …”
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Orbital and adnexal sarcoidosis: Clinical presentations and management outcomes by Shebin Salim, Md Shahid Alam, Sonam Ahuja, Kirthi Koka, Marian Pauly, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Bipasha Mukherjee

“…Additional treatments included oral steroids (n = 10) and systemic immunosuppressants (n = 5). …”
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of pain management after tonsillectomy by Katharina Geißler, Daniel Scham, Winfried Meißner, Peter Schlattmann, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius

“…Steroids and NSAIDs are an important part of pain management after tonsillectomy.…”
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Expectant Management of a Critically Ill Pregnant Patient with COVID-19 with Good Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes by Farah Alsayyed, Victoria Hastings, Sanford Lederman

“…Through an integration of obstetrical knowledge, critical care, and comparing outcomes from similar cases in the literature, we decided to expectantly manage her pregnancy and did not recommend administration of antenatal steroids. She was extubated after 23 days of mechanical ventilation and recovered from her respiratory illness. …”
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Challenges in Medicine: The Odyssey of a Patient with Isolated IgG4-Related Eosinophilic Angiocentric Fibrosis Presenting as a Locally Destructive Sinonasal Mass by Snigdha Nutalapati, Richard O’Neal, William O’Connor, Brett T. Comer, Gerhard C. Hildebrandt

“…Although initial biopsy was negative, repeat biopsy was performed owing to high clinical suspicion due to all the classic histopathological findings compatible with the diagnosis of eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis IgG4-related disease (EAF-IgG4RD). Steroids are the recommended first-line therapy; however, our case was resistant to steroids needing rituximab to halt the disease progression. …”
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Resistant stomach ulcer at Cushing disease: clinical case by N. V. Novozhilov, Yu. O. Shulpekoa, S. V. Mironov, Ye. K. Baranskaya, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Pathogenesis of chronic stomach ulcer is complex: effect of H.pylori infection, drugs (NSAID, steroids) and hypercorticoidism. Antihelicobacter eradication treatment, complete cancellation of NSAID and steroids, treatment by high doses of proton pump inhibitors, Н2-blockers, bismuth subcitrate did not result in ulcer healing. …”
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Recent Advances and Perspectives on the Use of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Review by Kisho Miyasako, Yujiro Maeoka, Takao Masaki

“…Recently, novel non-steroidal MRAs are more efficacious and have superior safety profiles to steroidal MRAs, making them promising potential components of future treatment strategies. …”
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HAV Infection Associated with Hemophagocytic Syndrome by H. Aamri, R. Elqadiry, H. Nassih, A. Bourrahouat, I. Ait Sab

“…He was then diagnosed with macrophage activation syndrome. The treatment with steroids improved the clinical and biological evolution of the condition.…”
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Diagnostic Dilemma of Leukemoid Reaction in Pediatric Pyoderma Gangrenosum by Snehal Umesh Chopade, Siddhi B. Chikhalkar, Shreya Singh, Priyanka R. Kute, Pooja Manohar Golwad, Pramod Dhanraj Kamble, Vidya Kharka

“…In such a dilemma, our case showed successful recovery with systemic steroids and colchicine confirming the diagnosis of PG.…”
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