Comparative study of treatment of haemangiomas with oral propranolol and corticosteroids.

Anita Ghuge; Abhijit Balkrishna Jagdale; Nilesh Nagdeve

Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2018

Comparative study of treatment of haemangiomas with oral propranolol and corticosteroids.

Anita Ghuge, Abhijit Balkrishna Jagdale, Nilesh Nagdeve

Abstract :

Infantile Haemangiomas are the most common vascular lesions of the infancy. Most of the infantile hemangiomas involute by its own but require years. One should opt the treatment of the infantile hemangioma before the development of the long–term memory and self–esteem. Before the emergence of the treatment of hemangiomas with propranolol infantile hemangioma were treated with the steroids. Treatment of the infantile is associated with many side effects. Though the treatment of hemangioma with propranolol has some theoretical side effects practically these are not as severe as steroids. Its author‘s observation that due to socio–economic constrains, the regular follow up is uncommon in India. In such situation, the treatment with the steroids can be hazardous. Current study concludes that the treatment of the hemangiomas (both in proliferative and nonproliferative phase) with propranolol has better results compared to the steroids.