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ArticleCureus2023

Effect of an Accidental Colchicine Overdose in a COVID-19 Inpatient With Bilateral Pneumonia and Pericardial Effusion.

Tsanko Mondeshki, Radoslav Bilyukov, Vanyo Mitev

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. COVID-19 Prophylactic Effect of Bromhexine Hydrochloride.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2026
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  3. Colchicine-The Divine Medicine against COVID-19.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tsanko MondeshkiDepartment of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases, University Hospital Alexandrovska, Medical University-Sofia, Sofia, BGR.
Radoslav BilyukovDepartment of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases, University Hospital Alexandrovska, Medical University-Sofia, Sofia, BGR.
Vanyo MitevDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University-Sofia, Sofia, BGR.
Medical University of Sofia · BG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 32-year-old patient with COVID-19 pneumonia and pericardial effusion mistakenly took 15 mg of colchicine over 10 hours. He developed diarrhea that resolved two days after colchicine was stopped. Remarkably, this single overdose of colchicine, without any additional therapy, resulted in the complete recovery of bilateral pneumonia and pericardial effusion, and the patient was discharged on the hospital day 9th. This case demonstrates the possibility that high colchicine doses may have a major role and a dramatic effect in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.

Indexed as

bromhexinecolchicinecovid-19cytokine release stormhymecromone

Identifiers

PMID37038575
PMCPMC10082222
OpenAlexW4323542538

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