Are postnatal steroids ever justified to treat severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia?
- 1 September 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal
- Vol. 92 (5), F334-F337
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2006.106583
Abstract
Current evidence does not favour use of corticosteroids as neurological side effects may outweigh the benefits of treatment, except perhaps in critically ill infants with respiratory failureKeywords
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