Colchicine myoneuropathy in chronic renal failure patients with gout

Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-150

  Lai, I Chun ^a   Cheng, Chung Yi ^a   Chen, Hsi Hsien ^a   Chen, Wei Yu ^b   Chen, Pei Yuan ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Colchicine myoneuropathy; Gout

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; COLCHICINE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; FUROSEMIDE; NIMESULIDE; PETHIDINE; TRAMADOL;

AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AREFLEXIA; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOPLASM; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GOUT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOREFLEXIA; LABORATORY TEST; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; MYONEUROPATHY; MYOPATHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLCHICINE; GOUT; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 33645860504     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: 14401797     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2006.00542.x     Document Type: Review

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