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JULY 7, 2017

Neurologic Complications More Likely With Epidural Particulate Steroid Injections

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Byungkwan Hwang, MD

Orlando, Fla.—Epidural steroid injections resulted in nearly twice the incidence of serious neurologic complications as epidural injections without steroids, according to a retrospective study, which also found soluble steroid injections to be just as safe as nonsteroid injections.

Since 2012, when the FDA issued a letter of warning, “steroids have not been approved for epidural injections,” said principal investigator Byungkwan Hwang, MD, a second-year