Patients with debilitating gout are being failed by the NHS because of outdated practices which mean they are prescribed only a third of the medication they need, experts claim.

Among patients with gout in the US, Black individuals and those living in the South were associated with reduced adherence to allopurinol.

A recent study by researchers from the University of California San Diego and collaborators has uncovered a new molecular pathway responsible for gout and its progression to joint tissue damage. The ...

Gout is a prevalent metabolic disorder characterized by urate crystal accumulation in joints, leading to acute arthritis and tophi formation. Despite advancements in management, the incidence and ...

No gout attack has occurred since the sixth infusion ... Numerous negatively birefringent needle-shaped monosodium urate crystals are detected by compensated polarized-light microscopy (original ...

In a recent study of patients with acute gout, oral prednisolone was as effective ... 24 hours of initial presentation, and monosodium urate crystals were identified in synovial fluid from a ...

Uric acid-induced kidney damage can occur through various mechanisms, including the activation of pro-inflammatory pathways and the accumulation of urate crystals in the kidney tubules ...

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1 Department of Orthopaedics, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China 2 College of Nursing, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China Objective: Gout is a common ...

When you hear the word gout, the first image which comes to mind is probably that of Henry VIII, who developed the condition after a life-time of overindulging on rich foods and alcohol.

This can be prevented by taking daily doses of urate-lowering therapy drugs ... fingers or toes due to tophi – deposits of uric acid crystals under the skin. These deposits can result in ...