Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing pulmonary tuberculosis
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Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing pulmonary tuberculosis.
BACKGROUND Tuberculosis causes approximately 8.6 million disease episodes and 1.3 million deaths worldwide per year. Although curable with standardized treatment, outcomes for some forms of tuberculosis are improved with adjunctive corticosteroid therapy. Whether corticosteroid therapy would be beneficial in treating people with pulmonary tuberculosis is unclear. OBJECTIVES To evaluate whethe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd011370