Comprehensive Nursing Pharmacology Q 183

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Colchicine is prescribed for a client with gout. The nurse reviews the client’s record, knowing that this medication would be used in caution in which of the following medical conditions?

  

     A. Behcet disease

     B. Aplastic Anemia

     C. Amyloidosis

     D. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)

    

    

Correct Answer: B. Aplastic Anemia

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Colchicine is contraindicated in patients with a known hypersensitivity to the drug, in those with serious gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, or cardiac disorders, and in those with blood dyscrasias such as aplastic anemia.

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Options A, C, and D: Behcet disease, amyloidosis, and familial Mediterranean fever all have joint pain as one of the symptoms, so the use of colchicine helps in reducing the inflammation of the joint.

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