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

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    Gout is a common form of inflammatory arthritis. It happens due to high levels of uric acid in the body. Researchers estimate that gout impacts one to four percent of people around the world.

  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. Arthritis - Wikipedia

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    Gouty arthritis can become particularly painful and potentially debilitating when gout cannot successfully be treated. [81] When uric acid levels and gout symptoms cannot be controlled with standard gout medicines that decrease the production of uric acid (e.g., allopurinol) or increase uric acid elimination from the body through the kidneys (e ...

  5. Arthropathy - Wikipedia

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    Arthritis is a form of arthropathy that involves inflammation of one or more joints, [3] [4] while the term arthropathy may be used regardless of whether there is inflammation or not. Joint diseases can be classified as follows: [citation needed] Arthritis; Infectious arthritis; Septic arthritis (infectious) Tuberculosis arthritis; Reactive ...

  6. Monoarthritis - Wikipedia

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    Toe affected by gout. Monoarthritis, or monoarticular arthritis, is inflammation of one joint at a time (as opposed to oligoarthritis, which affects 2-4 joints, and polyarthritis, which affects more than 4 joints). It is usually caused by trauma, infection, or crystalline arthritis. [1]

  7. Tophus - Wikipedia

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    Tophi are pathognomonic for the disease gout. Most people with tophi have had previous attacks of acute arthritis, eventually leading to the formation of tophi. Chronic tophaceous gout is known as Harrison Syndrome. [1] Tophi form in the joints, cartilage, bones, and other places throughout the body.

  8. Palindromic rheumatism - Wikipedia

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    Palindromic rheumatism (PR) is a syndrome characterised by recurrent, self-resolving inflammatory attacks in and around the joints , and consists of arthritis or periarticular soft tissue inflammation. [1] The course is often acute onset, with sudden and rapidly developing attacks or flares.

  9. Septic arthritis - Wikipedia

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    Acute septic arthritis, infectious arthritis, suppurative arthritis, pyogenic arthritis, [4] osteomyelitis, or joint infection is the invasion of a joint by an infectious agent resulting in joint inflammation. Generally speaking, symptoms typically include redness, heat and pain in a single joint associated with a decreased ability to move the ...