welcomes you to the new, improved website!240 patients with acute pericarditis randomized to either colchine or placebo in addition to standard NSAIDs. The colchine group had reduced rate of incessant or recurrent pericarditis.
A Randomized Trial of Colchicine for Acute Pericarditis
Submitted by: Erica Curcio
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
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Author(s): Massimo Imazio, Antonio Brucato, Roberto Cemin, Stefania Ferrua, Stefano Maggiolini, Federico Beqaraj, Daniela Demarie, Davide Forno, Silvia Ferro, Silvia Maestroni, Riccardo Belli, Rita Trinchero, David H. Spodick, and Yehuda Adler for the ICAP Investigators