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© 1984 British Society for Rheumatology

case-report

ACUTE COLCHICINE POISONING PRESENTING AS SYMPTOMATIC HYPOCALCAEMIA

RIDA A. FRAYHA, ZUHAYR TABBARA and NASSIR BERBIR

Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, and Berbir Medical Center Beirut, Lebanon

Correspondence to: Address correspondence to Dr. R. A. Frayha, American University, Beirut, Lebanon

Symptomatic hypocalcaemia was the dominant feature of acute colchicine poisoning in a young female with periodic polyserositis. Experimental data suggest that colchicine-induced hypocalcaemia is secondary to colchicine inhibition of bone resorption.

KEY WORDS: Colchicine toxicity, Hypocalcaemia


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