Intravenous colchicine in the treatment of acute pseudogout

✍ Scribed by M. Reza Tabatabai; Norman A. Cummings

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 388 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.1780230320

✦ Synopsis

The success of colchicine in the treatment of acute gouty arthritis has been well established. However, the usefulness of this drug in the therapy of the arthritis of pseudogout has been less enthusiastically regarded. When this therapy is assessed in the acute pseudogout syndrome, lower success rates and somewhat inconsistent results are often mentioned ( 1 4 ) .

However the use of other antiinflammatory drugs to treat acute pseudogout is sometimes militated against by the presence of associated conditions commonly seen in the age group of these patients. We have therefore reevaluated the use of intravenous colchine in the treatment of 7 consecutive patients with the acute arthritis of pseudogout, and report here the successful results of that therapy.