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  2. Allopurinol - Wikipedia

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    Allopurinol is used to reduce urate formation in conditions where urate deposition has already occurred or is predictable. The specific diseases and conditions where it is used include gouty arthritis, skin tophi, kidney stones, idiopathic gout; uric acid lithiasis; acute uric acid nephropathy; neoplastic disease and myeloproliferative disease with high cell turnover rates, in which high urate ...

  3. Gout - Wikipedia

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    Gout presenting as slight redness in the metatarsophalangeal joint of the big toe. Gout can present in several ways, although the most common is a recurrent attack of acute inflammatory arthritis (a red, tender, hot, swollen joint). [4] The metatarsophalangeal joint at the base of the big toe is affected most often, accounting for half of cases ...

  4. Lesinurad/allopurinol - Wikipedia

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    Lesinurad/allopurinol (trade name Duzallo) is a fixed-dose combination drug for the treatment of gout. [1] It contains 200 mg of lesinurad and 300 mg of allopurinol.In August 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration approved it for the treatment of hyperuricemia associated with gout in patients for whom target serum uric acid levels have not been achieved with allopurinol alone. [2]

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

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    According to the American College of Rheumatology guidelines, allopurinol is the first-line medication for lowering uric acid levels. Febuxostat is another uric acid-lowering medication that may ...

  6. Uricosuric - Wikipedia

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    Uricosurics are often used in the treatment of gout, a disease in which uric acid crystals form deposits in the joints. By decreasing plasma uric acid levels, help dissolve these crystals, while limiting the formation of new ones. However, the increased uric acid levels in urine can contribute to kidney stones.

  7. Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) typically occurs in persons with preexisting kidney failure. [3]: 119 Weeks to months after allopurinol is begun, the patient develops a morbilliform eruption [3]: 119 or, less commonly, develops one of the far more serious and potentially lethal severe cutaneous adverse reactions viz., the DRESS syndrome, Stevens Johnson syndrome, or toxic epidermal ...

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