Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A synthetic steroid used therapeutically to increase blood pressure by lowering the amount of salt the body excretes.
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- noun A
synthetic corticosteroid hormone normally used, as itsacetate , in cases ofadrenal insufficiency, or to increaseblood pressure .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The study included 509 patients randomly selected to one of four groups: continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone alone; continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone plus another corticosteroid called fludrocortisone; conventional insulin therapy with hydrocortisone alone; or conventional insulin therapy with intravenous hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone.
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The study included 509 patients randomly selected to one of four groups: continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone alone; continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone plus another corticosteroid called fludrocortisone; conventional insulin therapy with hydrocortisone alone; or conventional insulin therapy with intravenous hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone.
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The study included 509 patients randomly selected to one of four groups: continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone alone; continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone plus another corticosteroid called fludrocortisone; conventional insulin therapy with hydrocortisone alone; or conventional insulin therapy with intravenous hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone.
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The study included 509 patients randomly selected to one of four groups: continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone alone; continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone plus another corticosteroid called fludrocortisone; conventional insulin therapy with hydrocortisone alone; or conventional insulin therapy with intravenous hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone.
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The study included 509 patients randomly selected to one of four groups: continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone alone; continuous intravenous infusion with hydrocortisone plus another corticosteroid called fludrocortisone; conventional insulin therapy with hydrocortisone alone; or conventional insulin therapy with intravenous hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone.
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Triiodothyronine (25 μg daily) or a salt-retaining steroid, fludrocortisone (0.1 mg, once or twice daily), also may help.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Although not always needed, certain drugs can help control symptoms, among them beta-blockers, which lower the heart rate; midodrine, which constricts outlying blood vessels; fludrocortisone, which increases salt retention and blood volume; and antidepressants that raise serotonin levels in the brain.
The Seattle Times 2011
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MEDICATIONS Although not always needed, certain drugs can help control symptoms, among them beta-blockers, which lower the heart rate; midodrine, which constricts outlying blood vessels; fludrocortisone, which increases salt retention and blood volume; and antidepressants that raise serotonin levels in the brain.
NYT > Home Page By JANE E. BRODY 2011
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The death rate for patients who received fludrocortisone was 42. 9%, compared with 45. 8% for those in the conventional insulin therapy group.
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"The current data do not support the routine use of oral fludrocortisone in addition to hydrocortisone when physicians decide to introduce corticosteroids in the management of a patient with septic shock."
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