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Clinical Trial
. 1978 Apr;69(4):443-9.

A controlled trial of 6-methylprednisolone in acute alcoholic hepatitis. With a note on published results in encephalopathic patients

J B Shumaker, R H Resnick, J T Galambos, H Makopour, F L Iber
  • PMID: 356593
Clinical Trial

A controlled trial of 6-methylprednisolone in acute alcoholic hepatitis. With a note on published results in encephalopathic patients

J B Shumaker et al. Am J Gastroenterol. 1978 Apr.

Abstract

In a prospective double-blind study, 27 patients with alcoholic hepatitis were randomized for 6-methylprednisolone (12 patients) or placebo treatment (15 patients). The mortality was 50% among steroid treated patients and 47% in the control group (P less than .05). The role of liver biopsy feasibility at selection is emphasized since the mortality in this group was 10% as opposed to 71% when the procedure was contraindicated (P less than .01). Complications in the steroid-treated subjects were similar quantitatively and qualitatively to those observed in the control series.

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