Acute colchicine intoxication during clarithromycin administration in patients with chronic renal failure

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-517

  Akdag, Ibrahim ^a   Ersoy, Alpaslan ^a   Kahvecioglu, Serdar ^a   Gullulu, Mustafa ^a   Dilek, Kamil ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Clarithromycin; Colchicine toxicity; Familial Mediterranean fever; Gout; Peritoneal dialysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CEFEPIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLCHICINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS HEMODIALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GOUT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NAUSEA; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING;

EID: 37849186067     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: 17246059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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