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attacks. Less often it presents with painful
tophaceous deposits (+ discharge) in Heben
and Bouchard's nodes|
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hyperuricaemia at presentation,
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hyperurigaemia,
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samples ofisynovial Mud aspirated from) jornts for
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rule out hyperelytaemia and hyperlipidaemia asp
commonly associated with metabolic syndrome,
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hor urine sample) helpful in| diagnosis, in
patients with a family] history of young ont
gout, patients whose first attack of gout we
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stones. Such patients are likely to be avert
excreters of uric acid,
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important risk factor for eout! the use of se
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normal during acute gout, whilst patients y
hyperuricaemia may never develop ain atta
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which a level can|be considered raised is 3
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inhıbiton(allopurinol 300me/day),
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level,
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chronic tophaceous gout,