MEPROSONE 40 MG BT 1
Product informations
The indications are those of systemic corticosteroid therapy when the parenteral route is necessary due to inability to take oral medications (vomiting, gastric aspiration, altered consciousness).
- Infectious diseases: mainly certain cases of septic thrombophlebitis, severe typhoid fever, especially with mental confusion, shock, and coma, tuberculosis in addition to specific etiological treatment, acute stridulous laryngitis in children.
- Oncology: palliative treatment of leukemias and lymphomas, multiple myelomas, many cancers, and as antiemetic therapy during chemotherapy, bone metastases with hypercalcemia.
- Nephrology: certain glomerulonephritis and nephrotic syndromes, collagenosis and connective tissue diseases.
- Allergology: severe allergic conditions, Quincke's edema, anaphylactic shock.
- Endocrinology: paraneoplastic hypercalcemia.
- Hematology: idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (autoimmune), only by IV route.
- Neurology: cerebral edema, tumor or traumatic, palliative treatment of tumors of the Graves’ disease.
- ENT: laryngeal edema, suffocating laryngitis, epiglottitis, dyspnea.
- Pneumology: status asthmaticus.
- Organ transplantation.