Journals / Türkiye Acil Tıp Dergisi / 2011 / Cilt: 11 - Sayı: 4

Kolşisin ile tedavi sonrası gelişen palpitasyon

Palpitations developed following treatment with colchicines

Pages
174–176
Publication Date
2022-11-05
DOI
—
🏛️Bibliographic metadata and full text access for this article are provided via DergiPark.
DergiPark Record ↗
✨

AI Summary & Key Takeaways

AI Insight
⚡ TL;DR(Too Long; Didn't Read)

Therefore, patients who experience palpitations and who have a history of FMF may develop torsade de pointes resulting from colchicines induced hypomagnesemia.

📌 3 Key Takeaways

🎯
Objective & Hypothesis:Torsade de pointes is a form of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia occurring in a setting of prolonged QT interval as represented on surface electrocardiogram (ECG).
📊
Key Findings & Data:A 40-year-old man with the chief complaint of generalized weakness and increased heart rate (palpitation) was brought to hospital.
💡
Conclusion & Impact:Therefore, patients who experience palpitations and who have a history of FMF may develop torsade de pointes resulting from colchicines induced hypomagnesemia.
🔬Design:Research Article
📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:Domain Parameters

Abstract

Torsade de pointes is a form of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia occurring in a setting of prolonged QT interval as represented on surface electrocardiogram (ECG). A 40-year-old man with the chief complaint of generalized weakness and increased heart rate (palpitation) was brought to hospital. The patient was known to have familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and was receiving treatment (colchicines) for his condition. During acquiring the ECG, an episode of palpitation occurred and dysrythmia was observed in patient’s ECG. The blood level of Ca was normal but Mg level was lower than the normal range (0.3) in this patient, indicating a hypomagnesemia possibly caused by colchicines, which, in turn, might result in torsade de pointes. Colchicines is the choice drug for the treatment of FMF. Colchicines can reduce disease activity and prevent amyeloidosis. Colchicines overdose carries a high mortality risk (because of resulting cardiac arrhythmias). Electrolyte abnormalities that may be observed in patients with colchicines toxicity include hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, hyponatremia and hypomagnesemia. Mg deficiency produces a variety of clinical manifestations, including cardiac arrhythmias, such assupraventricular tachycardia and torsade de pointes. So in patients with FMF palpitation and torsade de pointes may occur due to Colchicines induced hypomagnesaemia. Therefore, patients who experience palpitations and who have a history of FMF may develop torsade de pointes resulting from colchicines induced hypomagnesemia.

Özet

Torsade de pointes, elektrokardiyogramda (EKG) QT aralığının uzaması ile görülen bir polimorfik ventriküler taşikardi türüdür. Halsizlik ve çarpıntı şikayeti ile hastanemize başvuran 40 yaşındaki erkek hastada kalıtımsal Akdeniz ateşi (KAA) öyküsü olduğu ve kolşisin ile tedavi edildiği bilgisi edinilmiştir. Hastada EKG çekilirken çarpıntı evresi gelişmiş ve disritmi EKG’de kayıt edilmiştir. Hastanın kan değerlerinde kalsiyum seviyesi normal ancak magnezyum seviyesi normal değerden (0.3) düşük bulunmuştur. Hipomagnezemi durumunun kolşisin tedavisi nedeniyle geliştiği ve bunun torsade de pointes’e neden olduğu düşünülmüştür. Kolşisin KAA hastalığının tedavisinde, hastalık aktivitesini azalttığı ve amiloidozu önlendiği için tercih edilen ilaçtır. Kolşisin overdozu kardiyak aritmilere neden olduğu için yüksek mortalite riski taşımaktadır. Kolşisin toksisitesi durumunda hastada hipokalsemi, hipofosfatemi, hiponatremi ve hipomagnezemi gibi elektrolik bozuklukları görülebilir. Magnezyum yetersizliği supraventriküler taşikardi ve torsade de pointes gibi kardiyak aritmiler kendisi gösteren klinik tablolar sergileyebilir. KAA eşliğinde görülen çarpıntı ve torsade de pointes’in, kolşisin kullanımına bağlı gelişen hipomagnezemi ile ilişkili olabilileceği akılda tutulmalıdır.

🔖

Cite This Article

SERAJİ, N., SHAMS, S. V., HABİBOLLAHİ, P. (2022). Kolşisin ile tedavi sonrası gelişen palpitasyon. Türkiye Acil Tıp Dergisi, Cilt: 11 - Sayı: 4, 174–176. https://ajindex.com/articles/625993

📄 Full Text PDF Viewer

📄

PDF görüntüleyici hazırlanıyor...

References (18)

  1. Odabas AR, Cetinkaya R, Selcuk Y, Bilen H. Familial Mediterranean fever. South Med J 2002;95:1400-3
  2. Ozçakar ZB, Yalçinkaya F, Yüksel S, Acar B, Gökmen D, Ekim M. Possible effect of subclinical inflammation on daily life in familial Mediterranean fever. Clin Rheumatol 2006;25:149-52
  3. Stahl N, Weinberger A, Benjamin D, Pinkhas J. Fatal colchicine poisoning in a boy with familial Mediterranean fever. Am J Med Sci 1979;278:77-81
  4. Baldwin LR, Talbert RL, Samples R. Accidental overdose of insufflated colchicine. Drug Saf 1990;5:305-12
  5. Frayha RA, Tabbara Z, Berbir N. Acute colchicine poisoning presenting as symptomatic hypocalcaemia Br J Rheumatol 1984;23:292-5
  6. Wallace SL, Omokoku B, Ertel NH. Colchicine plasma levels. Implications as to pharmacology and mechanism of action. Am J Med 1970;48:443-8
  7. Murray SS, Kramlinger KG, McMichan JC, Mohr DN. Acute toxicity after excessive ingestion of colchicine. Mayo Clin Proc 1983;58:528-32
  8. Sauder P, Kopferschmitt J, Jaeger A, Mantz JM. Haemodynamic studies in eight cases of acute colchicine poisoning. Hum Toxicol 1983;2:169-73
  9. Kaplan MM, Alling DW, Zimmerman HJ, Wolfe HJ, Sepersky RA, Hirsch GS, et al. A prospective trial of colchicine for primary biliary cirrhosis. N Engl J Med 1986;315:1448-54
  10. Kershenobich D, Vargas F, Garcia-Tsao G, Perez Tamayo R, Gent M, Rojkind M. Colchicine in the treatment of cirrhosis of the liver. N Engl J Med 1988;318:1709-13
  11. Putterman C, Ben-Chetrit E, Caraco Y, Levy M. Colchicine intoxication: clinical pharmacology, risk factors, features, and management. Semin Arthritis Rheum 1991;21:143-55
  12. Achtert G, Scherrmann JM, Christen MO. Pharmacokinetics/ bioavailability of colchicine in healthy male volunteers. Eur J Drug Metab Pharmacokinet 1989;14:317-22
  13. Wallace SL, Singer JZ. Review: systemic toxicity associated with the intravenous administration of colchicine-guidelines for use. J Rheumatol 1988;15:495-9
  14. Milne ST, Meek PD. Fatal colchicine overdose: report of a case and review of the literature. Am J Emerg Med 1998;16:603-8
  15. Hobson CH, Rankin AP. A fatal colchicine overdose. Anaesth Intensive Care 1986;14:453-5
  16. Wells SR, Anderson DL, Thompson J. Colchicine toxicity: a case report. Vet Hum Toxicol 1989;31:313-6
  17. Eckhardt L, Brugada P, Morgan J, Breithardt G. Ventricular tachycardia. In: Camm AJ, Luscher TF, Serruys PW, editors. The ESC textbook of cardiovascular medline. Oxford: Blackwell; 2006. p. 949–72
  18. Yoshida T, Hibino