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. 1979 Aug;60(2):77-84.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1979.tb02954.x.

Association of glycerol to dexamethasone in treatment of stroke patients

Association of glycerol to dexamethasone in treatment of stroke patients

M G Albizzati et al. Acta Neurol Scand. 1979 Aug.

Abstract

A prospective study of 93 acute stroke patients randomly selected by type of antiedema treatment given (hypertonic glicerol infusion plus dexamethasone versus dexamethasone alone) failed to elicit any statistically significant difference between the two treatments on survival rates and quality of survival 7 and 30 days after the stroke.

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