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An 80-year-old woman exhibited fall, diarrhoea, vomiting, functional decline, weakness of the proximal muscles of the upper and lower extremities, difficulty standing, myotonia, toxic myopathy and transaminitis following a concomitant administration of colchicine, telmisartan and omeprazole. Additionally, the colchicine prescribing error led to its overdose and thus toxicity [routes and durations of treatments to reaction onsets not stated].
The woman was hospitalised after an unwitnessed fall. At admission, she reported a 2-week history of altered bowel movements with increased loose stool frequency (diarrhoea), vomiting and functional decline since the past month. She had underlying transient ischaemic attack, hypertension, gout and recent-onset...