Does [ Glucocorticoid treatment improve glucose tolerance in patients with temporal arteritis or polymyalgia rheumatica ]?
Therapy with corticosteroids improves glucose tolerance in TA/PR with no increase in insulin secretion.
Our data suggest that children with complex cardiac defects undergoing cardiac surgery show profound but transient imbalance between pro- and anti-thrombotic activity, which could lead to thromboembolic complications. These alterations are more important after TCPC than after biventricular repair but seem to be determined mainly by low antithrombin III.