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Dexamethasone for chronic subdural haematoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Acta Neurochirurgica 2017 November
BACKGROUND: Chronic subdural haematoma is a common but retractable neurological disease in the elderly with a high rate of recurrence. Dexamethasone (DX) either as monotherapy or adjuvant therapy has been applied clinically, but its effectiveness and feasibility remain controversial. We conducted this review to clarify this issue.
METHODS: With a systematic review through multiple databases, we retrieved eligible English language publications and extracted relevant data to perform meta-analyses. The respective risk ratio (RR) and its 95% confidence interval (CI) were pooled to evaluate the overall effect.
RESULTS: Our meta-analysis showed overall that DX (alone or adjuvant) resulted in a lower recurrence rate when compared with non-DX therapy (RR, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.33-0.88; p = 0.01), but sensitivity analysis by excluding the most influential study achieved inconsistent results. The pooled effect revealed no statistical difference on recurrence rate between DX alone and non-DX therapy or surgical therapy (RR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.43-1.71; p = 0.66) (RR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.43-1.85; p = 0.76). Comparison between DX alone with the surgical therapy demonstrated no difference on the poor outcome (RR, 0.40; 95% CI, 0.15-1.04; p = 0.06).
CONCLUSIONS: We had no enough evidence to support DX use as an effective alternation to surgical therapy. But adjuvant DX use may facilitate the surgical therapy by reducing recurrence. Further study focusing on adjuvant DX was required.
METHODS: With a systematic review through multiple databases, we retrieved eligible English language publications and extracted relevant data to perform meta-analyses. The respective risk ratio (RR) and its 95% confidence interval (CI) were pooled to evaluate the overall effect.
RESULTS: Our meta-analysis showed overall that DX (alone or adjuvant) resulted in a lower recurrence rate when compared with non-DX therapy (RR, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.33-0.88; p = 0.01), but sensitivity analysis by excluding the most influential study achieved inconsistent results. The pooled effect revealed no statistical difference on recurrence rate between DX alone and non-DX therapy or surgical therapy (RR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.43-1.71; p = 0.66) (RR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.43-1.85; p = 0.76). Comparison between DX alone with the surgical therapy demonstrated no difference on the poor outcome (RR, 0.40; 95% CI, 0.15-1.04; p = 0.06).
CONCLUSIONS: We had no enough evidence to support DX use as an effective alternation to surgical therapy. But adjuvant DX use may facilitate the surgical therapy by reducing recurrence. Further study focusing on adjuvant DX was required.
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