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- who: Parmis Blomgran from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the Article: Systemic corticosteroids improve tendon healing when given after the early inflammatory phase, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 20/03/2017
SUMMARY
The authors first transected the right Achilles tendon on 24 rats, and randomized them to either systemic dexamethasone treatment or saline during the inflammatory phase of healing (days 0-4). Destructive tensional testing of the healing tendon Day 7 showed that dexamethasone reduced the peak force, stiffness and cross-sectional area of the healing tissue to less than half compared with saline . . .
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