title: Steroid-Based Therapy and Risk of Infectious Complications.
abstract: Lionel Rostaing and Paolo Malvezzi discuss the clinical implications of Laurence Fardet and colleagues' accompanying research study on infectious complications in patients receiving steroid treatment.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Universitaire de Néphrologie, Unité de Transplantation Rénale, CHU Grenoble, La Tronche, France.|Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.|INSERM U563, IFR-BMT, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Lionel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rostaing
authors.affiliation: Clinique Universitaire de Néphrologie, Unité de Transplantation Rénale, CHU Grenoble, La Tronche, France.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Malvezzi
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D013256:Steroids / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D013256:Steroids