Evaluation of Efficacy and Safety of Epidural Steroid Injection Using Dexamethasone or Betamethasone
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-04-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Particle steroid drug such as triamcinolone has been used widely for epidural steroid
injection (ESI) treatment in Korea. However, Korea FDA recently prohibit ESI using
triamcinolone, following the regulation of US FDA. Therefore, dexamethasone and betamethasone
become only candidate drugs for ESI in Korea and the investigators are curious about the
effectiveness and safety of both drugs due to limitation of information about comparison of
two drugs in previous literature. So, this study aims to compare the effectiveness and safety
of both drugs and our hypothesis is that there is no difference of the effectiveness between
dexamethasone and betamethasone at 2 weeks after ESI.