Haematologica (Mar 2007)

Steroid treatment in children with sickle-cell disease

  • Sonia Couillard,
  • Malika Benkerrou,
  • Robert Girot,
  • Valentine Brousse,
  • Alicia Ferster,
  • Brigitte Bader-Meunier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.10800
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 92, no. 3

Abstract

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Given the controversy concerning the effects of steroids in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), we evaluated the tolerability of long-term steroid treatment in 16 children with SCD and autoimmune and/or systemic diseases. The steroid treatment was poorly tolerated.