The use of corticosteroid (dexamethasone) in the treatment of acute laryngotracheitis

PN Skowron, JAP Turner… - Canadian Medical …, 1966 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many practitioners have considered that steroids, with their anti-inflammatory properties,
should be efficacious in the treatment of acute laryngotracheitis. To examine this theory, 200 …

A prospective randomized double-blind study to evaluate the effect of dexamethasone in acute laryngotracheitis

DM Super, NA Cartelli, LJ Brooks, RM Lembo… - The Journal of …, 1989 - Elsevier
To determine whether a single dose of dexamethasone (0.6 mg/kg) is useful in the treatment
of acute laryngotracheitis (croup), 29 hospitalized patients with acute laryngotracheitis were …

Corticosteroid treatment in bronchiolitis: a controlled, collaborative study in 297 infants and children

JA Leer, JL Green, EM Heimlich, JS Hyde… - American journal of …, 1969 - jamanetwork.com
A DOUBLE-BLIND study on the effect of betamethasone sodium phosphate in the treatment
of 297 infants and children with acute bronchiolitis was conducted at five hospitals from …

[CITATION][C] Dexamethasone (16 alpha-methyl, 9 alpha-fluoroprednisolone) in obstructive respiratory tract infections in children: a controlled study

S Sussman, M Grossman, R Magoffin, J Schieble - Pediatrics, 1964 - publications.aap.org
DEXAMETHASONE (16 ALPHA-METHYL, 9 ALPHA- Page 1 DEXAMETHASONE (16
ALPHA-METHYL, 9 ALPHAFLUOROPREDNISOLONE) IN OBSTRUCTIVE RESPIRATORY …

A double blind study on the effects of corticosteroids in the treatment of bronchiolitis

IA Dabbous, JS Tkachyk, SJ Stamm - Pediatrics, 1966 - publications.aap.org
Under the conditions of the study outlined above, 22 patients with bronchiolitis treated with
corticosteroids did not show any statistically significant difference from an equal number of …

Steroid treatment of laryngotracheitis: a meta-analysis of the evidence from randomized trials

SW Kairys, EM Olmstead, GT O'Connor - Pediatrics, 1989 - publications.aap.org
The use of adrenocorticoids to reduce the morbidity associated with laryngotracheitis (croup)
remains controversial despite ten published reports of randomized trials involving 1,286 …

Acute Laryngotracheitis

JA Turner - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1954 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Why are we seeing more cases? There are several possible explanations.(1) There is an in-
creased awareness of the disease among practi-tioners dealing with children.(2) With the …

A prospective randomized study to determine the efficacy of steroids in treatment of croup

B Leipzig, FA Oski, CW Cummings, JA Stockman… - The Journal of …, 1979 - Elsevier
We evaluated the use of dexamethasone in the management of acute
laryngotracheobronchitis (croup). Thirty patients, ranging in age from eight to 60 months …

Acute epiglottitis: a potential killer.

BW Fearon, RD Bell - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1975 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Both the supraglottic and subglottic forms of laryngitis are diseases of temperate zones.
They are more com¬ mon in the winter months but occur at any time in the year. The …

Corticosteroids in airway management

DB Hawkins, DM Crockett… - … —Head and Neck …, 1983 - journals.sagepub.com
Adrenal corticosteroids exert a strong suppressive influence on the basic inflammatory
response that leads to tissue swelling. The corticosteroid effect is nonspecific. In upper …