The use of corticosteroids in combination with other hormonal substances has long been known to result in increased mass gain with bovines. Practice has demonstrated, however, that even the single use of a glucocorticoid may result in growth promoting effects. In addition to the popular dexamethasone, more recently other corticosteroids have also been misused for fattening purposes. The first p...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Our objective was to investigate the efficacy and safety of dexa methasone (DEX) implant for the treatment of pseudophakic cystoid macular edema (PCME) in diabetic patients. STUDY DESIGN This was a prospective, non-randomized, interventional case series of 43 participants. Eighteen patients were enrolled in the DEX implant group and 25 were enrolled in an intravitreal...

PURPOSE To compare intravitreous bevacizumab to other current treatments of branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) and hemisphere retinal vein occlusion (HRVO) with consideration to visual outcome, cost, convenience, and risk of treatment. METHODS This is a retrospective chart review from a large referral retina practice. The data comprise 56 patients with BRVO and HRVO treated by intravitreous...

The binding of R 1881 in cytosols from the normal, benign hypertrophic and cancerous human prostates was examined in the presence of molybdate and triamcinolone acetonide. The addition of 10 mM Na2MoO4 resulted in an increase in the stability of the binder without any change in Kd. Triamcinolone acetonide added to the incubation of cytosol with R 1881 modified the inhibition pattern by other st...

Neurotoxic adverse effects after systemic corticosteroid administration are elevated in preterm infants. To test whether this might be related to an immature blood-brain barrier (BBB) that permits corticosteroids to enter the brain and induce neurotoxic effects, this study assessed the differences in brain permeability of triamcinolone acetonide after intratracheal administration to neonatal (1...

Aim: To evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide on the visual acuity of patients with exudative age related macular degeneration, to assess the duration of a possible effect, and to evaluate clinical side effects of the treatment. Methods: The study included 67 patients (71 eyes) who presented with exudative age related macular degeneration of predominantly or total occult t...

Correspondence: Pier Enrico Gallenga University Eye Clinic, G.D’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy Email [email protected] Patients treated with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide The paper by Kocabora and coworkers (2008) underlines the message that patients treated with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide are at risk of increased intraocular pressure (IOP) even after the clearance period o...

Seventeen subjects with chronic severe asthma completed a 48 week prospective, double blind study with crossover of treatment at 24 weeks, in which triamcinolone acetonide 80 mg intramuscularly every four weeks was compared with oral prednisolone 10 mg daily. Spirometry, twice daily measurements of peak expiratory flow rate, and self assessment of asthma symptom scores showed significant improv...

conclusions this study showed that topical glycyrrhiza glabra appeared to be a promising alternative in the treatment of olp. further studies should be conducted to assess the long-term effects of glycyrrhiza glabra. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of 1% glycyrrhiza glabra in orabase with 0.1% triamcinolone acetonide paste in treating oral lichen planus (...

A mucoadhesive drug delivery system can improve the effectiveness of a drug by maintaining the drug concentration and allowing targeting and localization of the drug at a specific site. Acrylic-based hydrogels have been used extensively as a mucoadhesive system owing to their flexibility and excellent bioadhesion. In this experiment, poly(acrylic acid) was selected to prepare the bioadhesive hy...