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Can dexamethasone be useful in community-acquired pneumonia?

Paola Fracasso,G. Costantino,On behalf of Gruppo di Autoformazione Metodologica

2012 · DOI: 10.1007/s11739-011-0733-1
Internal and Emergency Medicine · 1 Citations

TLDR

Despite concern about immunosuppression, glucocorticoid treatment in low-to-moderate doses is beneficial and safe for a wide variety of infections and in severe sepsis, however, it is still unclear whether the addition of steroids provides clinical benefit in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.