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There are a large number of conditions in which corticosteroids are used as a treatment or in which they must be used with caution.
Last reviewed 01/2018
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- corticosteroids in respiratory disease
- corticosteroids in Crohn's disease
- corticosteroids (minimal change nephropathy)
- corticosteroids (psoriasis)
- steroids in croup
- immunosuppression (myasthenia gravis/Lambert-Eaton syndrome)
- corticosteroids (chickenpox)
- steroids in rheumatoid arthritis
- steroids in treatment of temporal arteritis
- Bell's palsy (use of steroid therapy)
- transplantation
- hypopituitarism
- hypoadrenalism
- systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- polyarteritis nodosa
- dermatomyositis and polymyositis
- polymyalgia rheumatica
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly termed Wegener's granulomatosis)
- sarcoidosis
- eczema
- pemphigus
- Crohn's disease
- ulcerative colitis (UC)
- haemolytic anaemia
- idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
- acute leukaemia
- cerebral oedema