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ArticleCureus2024

High Doses of Colchicine Act As "Silver Bullets" Against Severe COVID-19.

Alexander Lilov, Kiril Palaveev, Vanyo Mitev

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. COVID-19 Prophylactic Effect of Bromhexine Hydrochloride.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2026
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  6. 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.

Alexander LilovPulmonology, Specialized Hospital for Active Treatment Pneumo-Pneumonia-Phthisiatric Diseases (SHATPPD) "Sofia District" Hospital, Sofia, BGR.
Kiril PalaveevPulmonology, Specialized Hospital for Active Treatment Pneumo-Pneumonia-Phthisiatric Diseases (SHATPPD) "Sofia District" Hospital, Sofia, BGR.
Vanyo MitevChemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, BGR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 48-year-old patient with a weight of 120 kg with type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and gout was hospitalized on the third day of the COVID-19 diagnosis. His general condition is relatively good, oxygen saturation is 89%. Despite starting standard treatment, on the seventh day from the onset of symptoms, the patient deteriorated sharply (oxygen saturation dropped to 74%). The negative development of the disease is interrupted with a loading dose of colchicine of 6 mg. This is a typical case of the life-saving effect of high but safe doses of colchicine in high-risk COVID-19 patients.

Indexed as

colchicinecovid-19nlrp3 inflammasomeobesitysurvival

Identifiers

PMID38510906
PMCPMC10951753

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