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Treatment of Acute Gout PDF
Treatment of Acute Gout PDF
Rheumatologist
Canadian Specialist Hospital
Gout
a disease recognized since antiquity, has increased in
prevalence in recent years and the clinical profile of
this disease has become increasingly complex, owing
to large numbers of cases with iatrogenic factors,
multiple comorbidities, advanced age, and
hyperuricemia and arthritis refractory to treatment.
The prevalence is 2.7%.
Gout
Is characterized
biochemically
by extracellular fluid urate
saturation, which is defined as
urate levels > 6.8 mg/dl ,
The clinical manifestations
include one or more of the following:
Recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis
Chronic arthropathy .
Accumulation of urate crystals in the form of tophaceous deposits .
Uric acid nephrolithiasis .
A chronic nephropathy that in gouty patients is most often due to
comorbid states.
Classification
Persistent hyperuricemia can be divided into
two categories;