Colchicine toxicity: a case report
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S R Wells1, D L Anderson, J Thompson
1Hennepin Regional Poison Center, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55415.
Veterinary and Human Toxicology
|August 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 59-year-old male was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit from the Emergency Department approximately 12 hr after the ingestion of 30 to 40 mg of colchicine, TYLENOL with codeine, IMODIUM, DESYREL and ethanol. He suffered severe systemic manifestations and succumbed approximately 36 hr post-ingestion. Although this is a case of a mixed ingestion, the complications seen suggest that colchicine was responsible for the fatality.