Corticosteroids - Adverse effect

    • General:

      • Increased appetite, weight gain (Cushingoid features: wt. gain, buffalo hump, moon facies, hirsutism, truncal obesity), candidiasis

    • Skin:

      • atrophy with purpura, acne, striae, fragile skin, hypertrichosis

    • Eye:

      • Cataracts, glaucoma, central serous chorioretinopathy

    • Cardiac:

      • Premature atherosclerosis, HTN

    • Genitourinary:

      • Menstrual irregularitis

      • Infertility

    • Metabolic:

      • Peripheral insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia

      • Fluid retention

      • Kaliuresis, azotemia, metabolic alkalosis

    • Gastrointestinal:

      • Gastritis, PUD, GIB, pancreatitis, fatty liver, hiccups

    • Bone:

      • Osteoporosis, AVN, muscle weakness

    • Psychiatric:

      • Psychosis

      • Euphoria, depression

    • Hematologic:

      • Neutrophilia, lymphopenia.

    • Neurologic:

      • Myopathy, behavioral changes, psychosis, hallucination, seizures, visual blurring, tremor, insomnia, reduced taste and olfaction, cerebral atrophy, dementia

      • Epidural lipomatosis