Complications of corticosteroid therapy.
The complications of corticosteroid therapy in children are protean. Perhaps the most important of these are adrenal insufficiency after withdrawal of steroids, immunosuppression, and growth failure. The physician who is caring for a child receiving corticosteroids must be aware of these common complications as well as the many less frequent side effects, such as cataracts, pseudotumor cerebri, pancreatitis, and steroid myopathy, to name a few. In all children, the risk of using corticosteroids should be weighed carefully before therapy with these agents is begun.
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D004700:Endocrine System Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D005333:Fetus / Q000187:drug effects; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D006402:Hematologic Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D006801:Humans; D007154:Immune System Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D008659:Metabolic Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones