Refractory shock and severe leukopenia with multisystemic organ failure due to colchicine intentional overdose;Shock refractario y leucopenia grave con fracaso multiorgánico secundarios a una intoxicación por colchicina

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 140-

  Fernández, Sara ^a   Castro, Pedro ^a   Nogué, Santiago ^a   Nicolás, Josep María ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INTOXICATION; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SHOCK; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMAN; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; COLCHICINE; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMANS; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84904399318     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2013.11.003     Document Type: Letter

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