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Table 6 Adverse effects of pulse therapy

From: Follow-up on pediatric patients with bronchiolitis obliterans treated with corticosteroid pulse therapy

Adverse effects (number of cycles = 808)

Hyperglycemia > 200 mg/dl*

74 episodes (9% of cycles)

Hypernatremia

14 episodes (1.7% of cycles)

Acute hypertension

19 episodes (2.3% of cycles)

  1. *patients did not fast because the visits to the day hospital were after lunch time.