corticotherapy

English

Etymology

cortico- +‎ therapy

Noun

corticotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural corticotherapies)

1. (medicine) The therapeutic use of corticoids (especially glucocorticoids)
   • 2015 December 8, “Adjunctive Corticotherapy for Community Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     We systematically reviewed the risks and benefits of adjunctive corticotherapy in the management of patients with CAP. / Methods / We systematically searched Pubmed,^[sic] Embase and the Cochrane Library for randomized controlled trials comparing adjunctive corticotherapy and antimicrobial therapy with antimicrobial therapy alone in patients with CAP. The primary outcome was 30-day mortality.