The Treatment of Cerebrovascular Accident

Supportive Adrenocortical Steroid Therapy in Acute and Subacute Cerebrovascular Accidents, With Particular Reference to Brain‐stem Involvement

“…Very few studies have come to my attention in which the adrenocortical steroids were actively employed in the subacute hemiplegic phase of stroke (2, 3). Several reviews were published in 1956 and 1957 dealing with the management of cerebrovascular accidents; in 1 instance (4) no reference was made to the use of hormones, and in the other 2 only a sentence was devoted to the entire subject (5, 6). Indeed, the value of such therapy in cerebral infarction has actually been denied in some quarters (7).…”