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  2. Your Gout Guide: From Symptoms to Treatment - AOL

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    Gout in foot joints is most common, with gout often affecting the big toe joint. ... If you have untreated gout for a long time, something called tophi can develop. Tophi is when uric acid ...

  3. Gout - Wikipedia

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    Without treatment, episodes of acute gout may develop into chronic gout with destruction of joint surfaces, joint deformity, and painless tophi. [5] These tophi occur in 30% of those who are untreated for five years, often in the helix of the ear, over the olecranon processes, or on the Achilles tendons. [5] With aggressive treatment, they may ...

  4. Tophus - Wikipedia

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    Tophi form in the joints, cartilage, bones, and other places throughout the body. Sometimes, tophi break through the skin and appear as white or yellowish-white, chalky nodules. Without treatment, tophi may develop on average about ten years after the onset of gout, although their first appearance can range from three to forty-two years.

  5. 11 easy, natural ways to treat nearly all of your foot ... - AOL

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    There are so many potential health problems that can afflict the feet ? like ingrown toenails, bunions, blisters, and even gout. 11 easy, natural ways to treat nearly all of your foot problems ...

  6. Xanthine oxidase inhibitor - Wikipedia

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    A xanthine oxidase inhibitor is any substance that inhibits the activity of xanthine oxidase, an enzyme involved in purine metabolism.In humans, inhibition of xanthine oxidase reduces the production of uric acid, and several medications that inhibit xanthine oxidase are indicated for treatment of hyperuricemia and related medical conditions including gout. [1]

  7. Lesch–Nyhan syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The drug allopurinol is utilized to stop the conversion of oxypurines into uric acid, and prevent the development of subsequent arthritic tophi (produced after having chronic gout), kidney stones, and nephropathy, the resulting kidney disease. Allopurinol is taken orally, at a typical dose of 3–20 mg/kg per day.

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