[In the treatment of hematopoietic disease with glucocorticosteroids]

Although glucocorticosteroids are widely used, many indications for their use are controversial, and we have an incomplete understanding of their mechanismus of action. Glucocorticosteroids are commonly employed as primary cytotoxic drugs in the treatment of hematopoietic disease with alone and combination chemotherapy such as leukemias, lymphomas, myeloma, acquired hemolytic anemia, aplastic anemia, granulocytopenia, idiopatic thrombocytopenic purpura, nonthrombopenic purpura, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.