Colchicine for the prevention of postpericardiotomy syndrome

Herz

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 791-794

  Finkelstein, Yaron ^a,c   Shemesh, Joseph ^b,c   Mahlab, Kerem ^b,c   Abramov, Dan ^a,c   Bar El, Yaron ^b,c   Sagie, Alex ^a,c   Sharoni, Erez ^a,c   Sahar, Gideon ^a,c   Smolinsky, Aram Kurt ^b,c   Schechter, Taly ^a,c   Vidne, Bernard A ^a,c   Adler, Yehuda ^b,c  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colchicine; Postpericardiotomy syndrome; Recurrent pericarditis

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERICARDITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLCHICINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS; POSTPERICARDIOTOMY SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12244249212     PISSN: 03409937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00059-002-2376-5     Document Type: Article

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