Corticosteroid-Dependent Leukocytosis Masks the Predictive Potential of White Blood Cells for Delayed Cerebral Ischemia and Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Dependency in Aneurysmatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

As seen in Table 1 , despite a slight trend towards higher rates of DCI in the patients who received dexamethasone, this trend did not prove statistically significant ( p = 0.111), while shunt dependency was significantly associated with dexamethasone treatment ( p = 0.011) ( Table 1 ).

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