Colchicine for pericarditis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Alabed, Samer ^a   Cabello, Juan B ^b   Irving, Greg J ^c   Qintar, Mohammed ^d   Burls, Amanda ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALOPECIA; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; HUMAN; LIVER TOXICITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NUMBERS NEEDED TO TREAT; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ASPIRIN; COLCHICINE; HUMANS; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETHACIN; PERICARDITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84907168846     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010652.pub2     Document Type: Review

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