Fatal colchicine toxicity

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 172, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 498-499

  Kubler, Paul A ^a   Boyd, Ian W ^b  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ADRAC   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; COLCHICINE; ENALAPRIL; GLICLAZIDE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; OMEPRAZOLE; URATE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOSE RESPONSE; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 0034658430     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2000.tb124076.x     Document Type: Note

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