Colchicine for cardiovascular prevention: the dawn of a new era has finally come

A Bonaventura, A Abbate - 2023 - academic.oup.com
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved colchicine to reduce the
risk of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, coronary revascularization, and cardiovascular (CV) …

Colchicine's Role in Cardiovascular Disease Management

LF Buckley, P Libby - Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Colchicine—an anti-inflammatory alkaloid—has assumed an important role in the
management of cardiovascular inflammation≈ 3500 years after its first medicinal use in …

Role of Colchicine in Cardiovascular Disease Management

LF Buckley, P Libby - Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Colchicine—an anti-inflammatory alkaloid—has assumed an important role in the
management of cardiovascular inflammation≈ 3500 years after its first medicinal use in …

Colchicine and cardiovascular prevention

A Alunno, F Carubbi, C Ferri - European Journal of Internal Medicine, 2024 - ejinme.com
Over the last two decades, mounting evidence suggested that inflammation is a leading
actor in the development and progression of cardiovascular diseases and that an interplay …

Meta-analysis evaluating the utility of colchicine in secondary prevention of coronary artery disease

M Xia, X Yang, C Qian - The American Journal of Cardiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Colchicine has shown potential therapeutic benefits in cardiovascular conditions owing to its
broad anti-inflammatory properties. Here, we performed a meta-analysis to determine the …

Colchicine and the heart: pushing the envelope

S Deftereos, G Giannopoulos, N Papoutsidakis… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
Colchicine, a natural and ancient drug still used today, is traditionally considered the staple
therapy for gout and a second-line treatment for pericarditis, as well as a basic part of …

Low-Dose Colchicine for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease: JACC Review Topic of the Week

K Nelson, V Fuster, PM Ridker - Journal of the American College of …, 2023 - jacc.org
Among statin-treated patients, inflammation assessed by means of high-sensitivity C-
reactive protein (hsCRP) is a more powerful determinant of cardiovascular death and all …

Colchicine for cardiovascular medicine

M Imazio, F Gaita - Future Cardiology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Colchicine is an ancient drug with anti-inflammatory effects especially on neutrophils. These
cells are critically involved in pericardial and atherosclerotic plaques inflammation, thus …

Colchicine in cardiovascular disease: an ancient drug with modern tricks

DC Tong, AM Wilson, J Layland - Heart, 2016 - heart.bmj.com
From the dark history of being a poison and purgative, colchicine has risen to become one of
the few irrefutable positives in the history of pharmacology in the management of myriad …

Colchicine for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases: old drug, new targets

A Andreis, M Imazio, GM De Ferrari - Journal of Cardiovascular …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Well known in past centuries as a herbal remedy for osteoarticular pain and commonly used
in the treatment of gout and familial Mediterranean fever, colchicine has an emerging role in …