Children Experience High Burden from Steroid-toxicity
Early results from a pilot study into the impact of steroid-toxicity on pediatric lupus nephritis patients suggest that children experience a high burden of steroid-toxicity and that variation in ...
In Conversation With… Joyce Chang, MD MSCE
“Infection is probably the biggest morbidity and mortality risk early on, and steroids dramatically increase the risk of infection." Joyce Chang, MD MSCE is a pediatric rheumatologist at Boston ...
Steroid-Toxicity in Children - the Desperate Need for a Pediatric Glucocorticoid Toxicity Index
Glucocorticoids have undoubtedly saved the lives of many children, whether to control asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, muscular dystrophy, or autoimmune diseases such as lupus. However, chronic ...
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