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Steroids fail to aid survival in bacterial meningitis study.(Infectious Diseases)

Publication: Pediatric News
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Adjuvant corticosteroid therapy did not improve survival or shorten hospitalization in the largest observational study of its kind ever conducted in children, researchers reported.

These findings held true across all pediatric age groups and regardless of whether the infecting organism or...

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...was pneumococcal meningococcal, according to Jillian Mongelluzzo of the division of infectious diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and her associates.

Adjuvant corticosteroid therapy does reduce hearing loss in children with meningitis caused...

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