A schedule for tapering glucocorticoid treatment in patients with severe sars-cov 2 infection can prevent acute adrenal insufficiency in the geriatric population

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• What: The authors aimed to assess whether a predefined schedule to taper the high-dose and long-acting GC used in patients with COVID-19 can prevent adrenal crisis after GC discontinuation. The aim of any GC therapy is to prescribe the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time.
• Who: Hormones ( and collaborators from the the University Hospital of Padova with , infectionA total of , patients were treated with dexamethasone, after have published the research: (2024) 23:753-758 A schedule for tapering glucocorticoid treatment in patients with severe SARS-CoV infection can prevent acute . . .
  

   

  

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