Acute colchicine overdose: Report of three cases

Reumatismo

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 307-311

  Aghabiklooei, A ^a,b   Zamani, N ^b   Hassanian Moghaddam, Hossein ^b   Nasouhi, S ^b   Mashayekhian, M ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Acute toxicity; Colchicine; Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy; Fulminant aplasia; Outcome; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ACTIVATED CARBON; BICARBONATE; COLCHICINE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; SORBITOL; VITAMIN K GROUP; ANTIDOTE; CHARCOAL; TUBULIN MODULATOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CYANOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HEART ARREST; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; RESUSCITATION; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; STOMACH LAVAGE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIDOTES; CHARCOAL; CHILD; COLCHICINE; DRUG OVERDOSE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTRIC LAVAGE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBULIN MODULATORS;

EID: 84896470100     PISSN: 00487449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/reumatismo.2013.720     Document Type: Article

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