HYPOTHESIS Only selected patients require steroid replacement therapy following adrenalectomy. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTINGS University tertiary care center and veterans' hospital. PATIENTS A total of 331 patients who underwent adrenalectomy by 1 surgeon (Q.-Y.D.) between April 1, 1993, and August 31, 2005. INTERVENTIONS Laparoscopic, open, and hand-assisted adrenalectomy. Stero...

AIM To report on the effectiveness of systemic steroid-pulse therapy in treating idiopathic choroidal detachment. CASE PRESENTATION Our patient developed idiopathic choroidal detachment after cataract surgery for pseudoexfoliation glaucoma and glaucoma filtration surgery. Systemic steroid-pulse therapy was performed, and the choroidal detachment resolved completely. CONCLUSION We suggest sy...

Idiopathic hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis (IHSP) is a chronic progressive and diffuse inflammatory fibrosis of the spinal dura mater. Though treatment of IHSP is surgical decompression with steroid therapy, treatment for recurrent IHSP is controversial. Our patient was diagnosed with IHSP based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and underwent laminectomy for decompression following steroi...

a 38-year-old man with a history of recurrent genital ulceration initially diagnosed as genital herpes was admitted after presenting with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. echocardiography revealed aneurysm formation of the sinus of valsalva. on diagnosis of an aneurysm of the sinus of valsalva associated with behçet's disease (bd), surgeon repaired the affected sinus only, and continuous steroid t...

complications, such as post-extubation laryngeal edema, and to reduce the need for reintubation [1,2]. In this issue, Lee et al. [3] show that topical steroid gargle with 0.05% dexamethasone solution is effective at lowering the severity of postoperative throat discomfort. Preoperative steroid loading is also regarded as essential for managing patients with adrenal insufficiency undergoing surg...

BACKGROUND Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been broadly used experimentally in various clinical contexts. The addition of MSCs to initial steroid therapy for acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) may improve patient outcomes. However, investigations regarding prognostic factors affecting the efficacy of MSC therapy for steroid-refractory aGVHD remain controversial. We thus conducted a syst...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this study was to investigate whether near-continual transtympanic steroid perfusion is more effective than intermittent intratympanic steroid injection as a salvage therapy for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss. STUDY DESIGN Case control study. METHODS We designed a case-control study consisting of 60 patients with sudden sensorineural hearin...

Abstract Background Intravenous steroid therapy is the main initial treatment for acute severe ulcerative colitis (ASUC). However, dependence in patients who were treated with intravenous ASUC not fully evaluated. We aimed to determine prevalence and risk factors of corticosteroid after ASUC. Methods Adult admitted satisfying Truelove-Witts criteria from January 2015 December 2020 included stud...

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a particular type of pancreatitis that is thought to have an autoimmune etiology. Before therapy for AIP is begun, accurate diagnosis of AIP is necessary. It is important to distinguish AIP from pancreatic cancer. Since there is currently no diagnostic serological marker for AIP, AIP should be diagnosed on the basis of a combination of abnormalities unique to AI...