A steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response.
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Examples for "corticosteroid "
Examples for "corticosteroid "
1 Predicting factors for treatment response, corticosteroid demand or relapse are not known.
2 Low detection rates of OPTN-indicated corticosteroid use within claims require further examination.
3 There were no data following corticosteroid withdrawal to assess any disease-modifying effect.
4 Viral cultures remained negative for all latently infected horses after corticosteroid administration.
5 Under chemotherapy and corticosteroid therapy, the evolution was favorable in 6 patients.
1 Performance of this is evaluated and discussed in patients with corticoid therapy.
2 Already 12 hours after the beginning of corticoid therapy liver perfusion started to recover.
3 After an alternative way of corticoid reduction was started, a relapse of sympathetic ophthalmia occurred.
4 It is mandatory to exclude infectious causes of granulomatous mastitis before corticoid therapy is started.
5 The final diagnosis of atypical necrosis of the femoral head, most probably secondary to corticoid therapy, was thus established.
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Translations for adrenal cortical steroid