Abstract
CIRCUMSTANTIAL evidence relates systemic corticosteroid therapy to aseptic necrosis of bone. Daily doses as low as 5 mg of prednisone have been cited. 1 The shortest period of therapy incriminated to date is 30 days (methylprednisolone, 16 mg/day). 2 Corticotropin has been implicated following treatment courses as brief as 42 days (10 to 20 mg/day of corticotropin). 3 The average interval from onset of steroid therapy to appearance of hip pain is 33 months. 2 This report concerns aseptic necrosis of both femoral heads appearing in a young man nine months after a 16-day course of corticotropin therapy. His primary problem is multiple sclerosis, a disease not known to be associated with aseptic necrosis. Report of a Case A 23-year-old, moderately obese vocational student received a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 1970. One of his manifestations was right retrobulbar neuritis with visual acuity of 15/200. Beginning May 28, 1970, he
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