Steroid therapy and outcome of parapneumonic pleural effusions (STOPPE): Study protocol for a multicenter, double-blinded, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial

BACKGROUND: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major global disease. Parapneumonic effusions often complicate CAP and range from uninfected (simple) to infected (complicated) parapneumonic effusions and empyema (pus). CAP patients who have a pleural effusion at presentation are more likely to r...

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Autores principales: Fitzgerald, Deirdre B., Waterer, Grant W., Read, Catherine A., Fysh, Edward T., Shrestha, Ranjan, Stanley, Christopher, Muruganandan, Sanjeevan, Lan, Norris S. H., Popowicz, Natalia D., Peddle-McIntyre, Carolyn J., Rahman, Najib M., Gan, Seng Khee, Murray, Kevin, Lee, Yun Chor Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6824804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31651842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000017397

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