Colchicine-induced rhabdomyolysis in a patient with chronic heart failure

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 561-562

  Debie, Karen ^a   Conraads, Viviane ^a   Vrints, Christiaan ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chronic heart failure; Colchicine; Gout; Rhabdomyolysis

Indexed keywords

CARVEDILOL; COLCHICINE; DIGOXIN; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG SAFETY; GOUT; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOPATHY; NAUSEA; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; VOMITING;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLCHICINE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GOUT; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

EID: 0346955956     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.58.6.2005322     Document Type: Article

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