title: [Comparative study of the effectiveness of 2 oral corticoids in the control of severe crisis of bronchial asthma: deflazacort and prednisone].
abstract: This article contains the results reached after conducting a study with 30 patients hospitalized or seen at the Emergency Ward of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, diagnosed as suffering from a severe bronchial asthma crisis, in whom the crisis was controlled with conventional measures. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of deflazacort and prednisone as anti-inflammatory agents capable of controlling severe asthma crisis in addition to analyzing their side effects. Deflazacort showed to be as effective as prednisone.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias. México, DF, México.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chapela
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D000328:Adult; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001249:Asthma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011282:Pregnenediones / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D011282:Pregnenediones; C021988:deflazacort; D011241:Prednisone