Further Experience with Colchicine in the Treatment of Sarcoid Arthritis

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IN a previous report1 I described my experience with colchicine in 2 patients with sarcoid arthritis. In the first, each of four acute bouts of joint inflammation was abruptly terminated in less than twenty-four hours by therapeutic levels of colchicine. Four untreated attacks persisted for five to fourteen days. In the second patient, a painful knee effusion of two months' duration responded dramatically to colchicine. Since that time 3 more patients with sarcoid arthritis have made a rapid recovery after receiving colchicine.Case ReportsCase 1. J.G., a 35-year-old man, complained of intermittent fever for 2 weeks, and during the . . .

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