Corticosteroids: Side-Effects

Key points

• Corticosteroids: side-effects Glucocorticoid side-effects
• endocrine: impaired glucose regulation, increased appetite/ weight gain, hirsutism, hyperlipidaemia
• Cushing's syndrome: moon face, buffalo hump, striae
• musculoskeletal: osteoporosis, proximal myopathy, avascular necrosis of the femoral head
• immunosuppression: increased susceptibility to severe infection, reactivation of tuberculosis