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Binnen de neurologie wordt aan patienten met bepaalde oogspierverlammingen veelal corticosteroiden gegeven. De vraag of het effectief was, werd beantwoord door de bekende Cochrane groep. Het resultaat was boeiend. Eerst citeren we de bevindingen.
A trial of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (43 patients) did not show any advantage compared with placebo for the treatment of ocular myasthenia gravis. Two double-blind trials compared prednisone with placebo for generalised myasthenia gravis. In the first (13 patients), the improvement was slightly greater in the prednisone group at six months. In the second (20 patients) which was a short-term trial, the improvement was significantly greater at two weeks. Two trials compared glucocorticosteroids with azathioprine (41 and 10 patients respectively). In one of these the rate of treatment failure was greater in the prednisone group. In a trial of glucocorticosteroids versus intravenous immunoglobulin (33 patients) no differences in treatment responses were encountered during a treatment period of 14 days. An open trial (39 patients) evaluating different corticosteroid doses revealed a shorter time to improvement in the high-dose group. However only limited evidence can be drawn from the available randomised controlled trials due to numerous and important methodological flaws.[1] Discussie
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