Reassessing the safety of intravenous and compounded injectable colchicine in acute gout treatment

Expert Opinion on Drug Safety

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 625-629

  Schlesinger, Naomi ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colchicine; Compounded injectable; Gout; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; CIMETIDINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DILTIAZEM; ERYTHROMYCIN; INDINAVIR; ISONIAZID; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; NELFINAVIR; NICARDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROPAFENONE; QUINIDINE; RANITIDINE; RIFAMPICIN; RITONAVIR; SAQUINAVIR; SULFAFURAZOLE; TACROLIMUS; TAMOXIFEN; TETRACYCLINE; VERAPAMIL;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARSENIC POISONING; BACKACHE; BEHCET DISEASE; CALCIFICATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GOUT; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERICARDITIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PSEUDOGOUT; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SCLERODERMA; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; COLCHICINE; DRUG COMPOUNDING; GOUT; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 38449100795     PISSN: 14740338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14740338.6.6.625     Document Type: Review

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