Effi cacy and safety of colchicine for treatment of multiple recurrences of pericarditis (CORP-2): A multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised trial

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9936, 2014, Pages 2232-2237

  Imazio, Massimo ^a   Belli, Riccardo ^a   Brucato, Antonio ^b   Cemin, Roberto ^c   Ferrua, Stefania ^d   Beqaraj, Federico ^a   Demarie, Daniela ^a   Ferro, Silvia ^a   Forno, Davide ^a   Maestroni, Silvia ^b   Cumetti, Davide ^b   Varbella, Ferdinando ^d   Trinchero, Rita ^a   Spodick, David H ^e   Adler, Yehuda ^f  

^a MARIA VITTORIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^c BMT Unit Hospital San Maurizio   (Italy)

^d OSPEDALE DEGLI INFERMI   (Italy)

^e SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; COLCHICINE; CREATINE KINASE; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ALOPECIA; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL INTOLERANCE; HEART TAMPONADE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYOTOXICITY; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; ITALY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; COLCHICINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903315817     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62709-9     Document Type: Article

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