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  2. Hyperuricemia - Wikipedia

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    Unless high blood levels of uric acid are determined in a clinical laboratory, hyperuricemia may not cause noticeable symptoms in most people. [5] Development of gout – which is a painful, short-term disorder – is the most common consequence of hyperuricemia, which causes deposition of uric acid crystals usually in joints of the extremities, but may also induce formation of kidney stones ...

  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). [6] The metatarsophalangeal joint at the base of the big toe is affected most often, accounting for half of cases ...

  4. Managing Out-of-Control Chronic Gout: Going Beyond Oral ...

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    Gout is a serious and painful form of arthritis that occurs when there is too much uric acid in the blood. “It is a very common form of arthritis,” says rheumatologist Dr. Orrin Troum. “Pain ...

  5. Uric acid - Wikipedia

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    Uric acid is a heterocyclic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen with the formula C 5 H 4 N 4 O 3. It forms ions and salts known as urates and acid urates, such as ammonium acid urate. Uric acid is a product of the metabolic breakdown of purine nucleotides, and it is a normal component of urine. [1]

  6. Lesch–Nyhan syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms caused by the buildup of uric acid (gout and kidney symptoms) respond well to treatment with medications such as allopurinol that reduce the levels of uric acid in the blood. The mental deficits and self-mutilating behavior do not respond well to treatment.

  7. Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase - Wikipedia

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    Mutations in the gene lead to hyperuricemia.At least 67 disease-causing mutations in this gene have been discovered: [5] Some men have partial (up to 20% less activity of the enzyme) HGPRT deficiency that causes high levels of uric acid in the blood, which leads to the development of gouty arthritis and the formation of uric acid stones in the urinary tract.

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