Clinical Studies on the Effect of Corticosteroids on the Ventricular Fluid Pressure

Abstract

If corticosteroids reduce cerebral edema they should also reduce the raised intracranial pressure associated with edema. A study of the steroid effect from this angle has the advantage that the intracranial pressure can be measured continuously, even in a clinical context. Furthermore, the raised intracranial pressure is from the clinical point of view one of the most important consequences of cerebral edema.