Cortisone myopathy

The Cortisonmyopathie is a muscle disease , which as a side effect with prolonged treatment with corticosteroids such as cortisol (often incorrectly as cortisone can called) occur. It manifests itself as a degeneration of the striated skeletal muscles with a loss of strength with paresis up to visible atrophy .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H.-J. Hettenkofer: Rheumatology: Diagnostics, Clinic, Therapy. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-13-657805-8 , p. 247.

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