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. 2013 Apr 5;25(5):331–334. [Article in Spanish] doi: 10.1016/S0212-6567(00)78514-3

Evaluación de las infiltraciones locales con corticoides en un centro de salud

Evaluation of local corticosteroid infiltrations in a health centre

A Gallardo Juan a, PJ Avellaneda Molina b,*, JM Baeza López a, M Jiménez González a, MV Bonet Ferreiro a, I Casas Aranda b
PMCID: PMC7681439  PMID: 10853503

Abstract

Objective

To evaluate the effect of corticosteroid infiltrations in osteoarticular and tendinous pathology in Primary Care.

Design

Observational and descriptive study.

Setting

La Unión Health Center, a town of 14000 inhabitants in Murcia.

Measuraments and main results

All patients older than 14 years subjected to one or more infiltrations from 1-1-1997 to 1-5-1998 were included. The following variables were analysed using information obtained from the patient's medical records: age, sex, condition treated, evolution time, previous treatment, number of infiltrations, results and complications. Descriptive statistics including frecuency and distribution tables were calculated. The 70.3% of the 138 cases are women, the mean age is 57.7 years. Most infiltrations were performed for shoulder conditions (60.1%). The mean time of evolution in these cases was 90.9 ± 13.9 days. Only 10,9% of patients hadn't received any previous treatment. The mean number of infiltrations is 1.5 ± 0.7 and the middle is 1. Symptoms improved in 82.62% of the cases, just completly (40.6%) or partially (42%). Only in 17.4% cases failed the intervention. Only a complication was registered, one case of residual pigmentation.

Conclusions

The local corticosteroids infiltration is a useful technique in primary care because of a high effectivity, easy management, low cost and few complications.

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