2016
DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2016.03.34
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Adjuvant corticosteroids for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: is it time?

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“…7 Regimen steroid yang digunakan sebagai terapi tambahan antara lain prednisone, prednisolone, hydrocortisone, methylprednisolone, dan dexamethasone. 8 Steroid dapat diberikan jika pasien dalam kondisi yang parah (hyperinflammatory), Acute Lung Injury (ALI)/ARDS, severe sepsis, dan/atau severe pneumonia. 9 Hasil penelitian sebelumnya menunjukkan tidak ada perbedaan yang signifikan pada nilai waktu perbaikan kondisi klinis dan rata-rata lamanya pasien dirawat (Length of Stay/ LoS) antara kelompok yang diberi steroid dan plasebo.…”
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“…7 Regimen steroid yang digunakan sebagai terapi tambahan antara lain prednisone, prednisolone, hydrocortisone, methylprednisolone, dan dexamethasone. 8 Steroid dapat diberikan jika pasien dalam kondisi yang parah (hyperinflammatory), Acute Lung Injury (ALI)/ARDS, severe sepsis, dan/atau severe pneumonia. 9 Hasil penelitian sebelumnya menunjukkan tidak ada perbedaan yang signifikan pada nilai waktu perbaikan kondisi klinis dan rata-rata lamanya pasien dirawat (Length of Stay/ LoS) antara kelompok yang diberi steroid dan plasebo.…”
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“…Therefore, it is attractive to postulate that dampening the immune response, thereby reducing inflammation, during pneumococcal pneumonia could have a clinical beneficial effect. Treatment with anti-inflammatory drug, such as dexamethasone indeed, reduces the length of hospital stay and improves quality of life afterward ( 20 , 21 ). The combined effect of optimal vaccination strategies and balanced antibiotic and anti-inflammatory treatment thus has dramatically improved the outlook for prevention and recovery of pneumococcal infection, both for the very young and the very old.…”
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