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Corticosteroid-induced delirium and dependency
A Stoudemire1, T Anfinson, J Edwards
1Section of Psychiatry, Emory Clinic, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
General Hospital Psychiatry
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
A case of a patient with chronic lung disease who developed an addiction pattern of corticosteroid dependency is described in which steroid-induced delirium also developed. The rare phenomenon of corticosteroid dependency is discussed as well as the phenomenology and possible mechanisms of steroid-induced delirium.