short history of anti-rheumatic therapy. IV. Corticosteroids

In 1948 a corticosteroid compound was administered for the first time to a patient affected by rheumatoid arthritis by Philip Showalter Hench, a rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota (USA). He was investigating since 1929 the role of adrenal gland-derived substances in rheumatoid...

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Main Authors: P. Marson, G. Pasero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2011-06-01
Series:Reumatismo
Online Access:http://www.reumatismo.org/index.php/reuma/article/view/496