Chronic tophaceous gout presenting as acute arthritis during an acute illness: a case report

BACKGROUND: Gout is a metabolic disease that can manifest as acute or chronic arthritis, and deposition of urate crystals in connective tissue and kidneys. It can either manifest as acute arthritis or chronic tophaceous gout. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 39-year-old male patient who developed acu...

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Autores principales: Dhoble, Abhijeet, Balakrishnan, Vijay, Smith, Robert
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18922154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-238
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author Dhoble, Abhijeet
Balakrishnan, Vijay
Smith, Robert
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Smith, Robert
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description BACKGROUND: Gout is a metabolic disease that can manifest as acute or chronic arthritis, and deposition of urate crystals in connective tissue and kidneys. It can either manifest as acute arthritis or chronic tophaceous gout. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 39-year-old male patient who developed acute arthritis during his hospital course. Later on, after a careful physical examination, patient was found to have chronic tophaceous gout. The acute episode was successfully treated with colchicines and indomethacin. CONCLUSION: Gout usually flares up during an acute illness, and should be considered while evaluating acute mono articular arthritis. Rarely, it can also present with tophi as an initial manifestation.
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spelling pubmed-25726092008-10-25 Chronic tophaceous gout presenting as acute arthritis during an acute illness: a case report Dhoble, Abhijeet Balakrishnan, Vijay Smith, Robert Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Gout is a metabolic disease that can manifest as acute or chronic arthritis, and deposition of urate crystals in connective tissue and kidneys. It can either manifest as acute arthritis or chronic tophaceous gout. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 39-year-old male patient who developed acute arthritis during his hospital course. Later on, after a careful physical examination, patient was found to have chronic tophaceous gout. The acute episode was successfully treated with colchicines and indomethacin. CONCLUSION: Gout usually flares up during an acute illness, and should be considered while evaluating acute mono articular arthritis. Rarely, it can also present with tophi as an initial manifestation. BioMed Central 2008-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2572609/ /pubmed/18922154 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-238 Text en Copyright © 2008 Dhoble et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Chronic tophaceous gout presenting as acute arthritis during an acute illness: a case report
title_fullStr Chronic tophaceous gout presenting as acute arthritis during an acute illness: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Chronic tophaceous gout presenting as acute arthritis during an acute illness: a case report
title_short Chronic tophaceous gout presenting as acute arthritis during an acute illness: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18922154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-238
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