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To the Editor: The use of systemic corticosteroids in patients with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is of serious concern. Lee and colleagues report anecdotal success in their article on SARS elsewhere in this issue.¹ And in the recent Web broadcast on SARS by the CDC, Dr. Sung, one of the coauthors, states, "High-dose steroid should be given early to stop the progression of the disease."² The pathogenesis of SARS is diffuse alveolar damage with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), not bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia. And SARS is most likely due to coronavirus pneumonitis. Early treatment with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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