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Postgraduate Medical Journal 1989;65:752-755; doi:10.1136/pgmj.65.768.752
© 1989 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

Colchicine cardiotoxicity following ingestion of Gloriosa superba tubers.

S. Mendis

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

The clinical features of colchicine toxicity in a patient following ingestion of Gloriosa superba tubers are described. Gastroenteritis, acute renal failure, cardiotoxicity and haematological abnormalities were the main toxic manifestations. There was no hypotension and no neurological manifestations. Electrocardiographic changes were noteworthy and have not been reported previously.


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