Open AccessColchicine as First-Choice Therapy for Recurrent Pericarditis
Author(s) -
Massimo Imazio,
Marco Bobbio,
Enrico Cecchi,
Daniela Demarie,
Franco Pomari,
Mauro Moratti,
Aldo Ghisio,
Riccardo Belli,
Rita Trinchero
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.165.17.1987
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , colchicine , surgery , pericarditis , odds ratio , adverse effect , aspirin , randomized controlled trial , clinical endpoint , relative risk , prednisone , pharmacotherapy
Colchicine seems to be a good drug for treating recurrences of pericarditis after conventional treatment failure, but no clinical trial has tested the effects of colchicine as first-line drug for the treatment of the first recurrence of pericarditis.
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