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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. Colchicine - Wikipedia

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   Colchicine is a medication used to prevent and treat gout, [3] [4] to treat familial Mediterranean fever [5] and Behçet's disease, [6] and to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction. [7] The American College of Rheumatology recommends colchicine, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or steroids in the treatment of gout.

5. Crystallopathy - Wikipedia

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   For example, mechanical obstruction by mineral stones causes nephrolithiasis, urolithiasis, cholecystolithiasis, choledocholithiasis, docholithiasis, and sialolithiasis, and acute inflammation caused by crystals in joints causes gout and pseudogout. [1] Renal diseases are also common in crystallopathies, including: [1]

6. Monoarthritis - Wikipedia

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   Gout is inflammation caused by the deposition of needle-shaped monosodium urate crystals in the joints. It is the most common type of inflammatory arthritis in the United States. The disease typically affects a single joint in earlier stages but can progress into polyarthritis over time.

7. Crystal arthropathy - Wikipedia

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   Wait until they are six weeks resolved to initiate that, otherwise you can cause an acute flare/worsening of the gout. However, they are already on allopurinol ...