Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Treatment and Prevention of Pericarditis With Colchicine. A Multicenter Double Blind Randomized Trial. The COPPS Trial: COlchicine for the Prevention of Postpericardiotomy Syndrome
Brief Summary: The purpose of the study is to determine whether colchicine is safe and effective in the prevention of the postpericardiotomy syndrome.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients of either gender and of any race ≥18 years of age.
2. If female, patients must be postmenopausal as evidenced by lack of menses for ≥12 consecutive months.
3. Patients must present with a confirmed diagnosis of gout.
4. Patients must have experienced ≥2 acute gouty arthritic attacks in the 12 months prior to randomization.
5. Patients on urate lowering therapy must be on a stable dose and schedule with no changes in therapy for 4 weeks prior to randomization and expected to remain on a stable regimen during study participation.
6. Patients must be willing to adhere to the study schedule and the protocol requirements.
7. Patients must be willing and able to give written informed consent. A HIPAA and/or state privacy consent must also be signed.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with acute polyarticular gout (\>4 joints).
2. Patients who have experienced \>2 acute gouty arthritic attacks per month, or \>12 attacks overall, in the 6 months prior to randomization.
3. Patients with arthritis due to any cause other than gout that may confound any study assessments per Investigator discretion.
4. Patients with a history of myocardial infarction, unstable angina, cerebrovascular events, or coronary artery bypass grafting within the previous 6 months prior to screening.
5. Patients with active myeloid leukemia, obstructive gastrointestinal cancer, or metastatic cancer.
6. Patients with chronic renal dysfunction (creatinine clearance \<60 mL/min as estimated with the Cockcroft Gault formula).
7. Patients with chronic hepatic dysfunction.
8. Patients with a history of alcohol or substance abuse within the 12 months prior to randomization.
9. Patients who have any concomitant illness or other finding that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would confound the study data or place the patient at unacceptable risk if the patient were to participate in the study, or that would require frequent adjustments in concomitant medications during the course of the study.
10. Patients using systemic corticosteroid, cyclosporine, adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab, anakinra, abatacept, mycophenolate, azathioprine, anticoagulants (warfarin, heparin, low molecular weight heparin \[LMWH\], antithrombin agents, thrombin inhibitors, or selective Factor Xa inhibitors \[note, use of aspirin ≤325 mg/day is allowed\]), or chronic use of non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), acetaminophen, tramadol, and other analgesics such as opiates at screening
11. Use of any investigational drug within 30 days prior to randomization.
12. Patients currently participating in another research study or anticipated to enroll in such during participation in this study.
13. Patients for whom informed consent cannot be obtained.
14. Patients who have previously been randomized into this study and begun ingestion of study drug.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age \> 18years
* Candidate to cardiac surgery but cardiac transplantation
* Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Atrial fibrillation
* Candidate to cardiac transplantation
* Severe liver disease or elevation of serum transaminases (\> 1.5 times the upper reference limit)
* Serum creatinine \> 2.5 mg/dL
* Preoperative elevation of CK or known myopathy
* Known chronic intestinal diseases or blood dyscrasias
* Pregnancy, Lactation or Women of childbearing potential not protected by a contraception method
* Hypersensitivity to colchicine
* Treatment with colchicine for any cause
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with the first attack of recurrent pericarditis
* Age≥ 18 years
* Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Suspected neoplastic, tuberculous, or purulent etiology
* Known severe liver disease and/or elevated transaminases \>1.5 times the upper limit of normality
* Serum creatinine \>2.5 mg/dl
* Serum creatine kinase (CK) over the upper limit of normality or known myopathy
* Known gastrointestinal or blood disease
* Pregnant or lactating women or women not protected by a contraception method
* Known hypersensibility to colchicine
* Treatment with colchicine at enrolment
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients in the third day after a cardiac surgery operation
* Age≥ 18 years
* Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

All evaluated before the surgical operation:

* Known severe liver disease and/or elevated transaminases \>1.5 times the upper limit of normality
* Serum creatinine \>2.5 mg/dl
* Serum creatine kinase (CK) over the upper limit of normality or known myopathy
* Known gastrointestinal or blood disease
* Pregnant or lactating women or women not protected by a contraception method
* Known hypersensibility to colchicine
* Treatment with colchicine at enrolment

Answer: D