Flacort tablet
Is a glucocorticoid
Indications
Endocrine
Primary adrenal insufficiency or secondary (hydrocortisone or cortisone is the drug of first choice, given its very weak mineralocorticoid effect, deflazacort should be used only in combination with a mineralocorticoid, particularly when treating children).
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
Rheumatic and collagen
Treatment of acute attacks and / or maintenance treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis when the usual treatments have proven ineffective; rheumatic polymyalgie , rheumatic fever, lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, polyarteritis nodosa, temporal arteritis; Wegener’s granulomatosis.
Other inflammatory
Non itchy Thyroiditis.
Dermatological
Acute , severe dermatitis as pemphigus, bullous dermatitis herpetiformis, generalized exfoliative dermatitis, erythema multiforme, erythema nodosum, severe psoriasis.
Allergies
Bronchial asthma not responding to conventional treatment.
Lung
Sarcoidosis with pulmonary infiltrates, exogenous allergic alveolitis (pneumoconiosis due to organic dusts), desquamative interstitial pneumonia.
Eye disorders
Choroïdorétinite and choroiditis, iritis and iridocyclitis.
Blood
Idiopathic thrombocytopenia in adults, acquired autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
Neoplasia
Palliative treatment of acute leukemia in children as well as leukemia and lymphoma in adults.
Renal
Nephrotic syndrome (some forms).
Gastro-intestinal and liver
Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, chronic aggressive hepatitis.
