| Colchicine Induced Myopathy Presenting Electrophysiologic Myotonia |
| Ji-Won Yang, Na-Re Kim, and Kee Hyung Park |
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| Copyright © 2009 The Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology |
| This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
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| ABSTRACT |
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Colchicine is widely used in the treatment of gouty arthritis, and chronic use of colchicine can cause vacuolar myopathy. We report colchicine-induced myopathy with electrophysiological myotonia in a patient with gouty arthritis. A 86-year-old man with gouty arthritis presented with progressive proximal weakness and gait disturbance. Electrophysiological finding showed myotonic myopathy and muscle biopsy revealed a vacuolar myopathy. His symptoms soon resolved with the discontinuation of colchicine. |
| Key words:
Colchicine, Myotonia, Gout |
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