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Gout Flashcards

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What is Gout?

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Crystal arthropathy associated with chronically high blood uric acid levels

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What are the common joints affected by gout?

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  • MTPJ of big toe (most common)
    • gout crystals heavy > drag down by gravity
  • Ankle
  • Foot
  • Small joints of hand
  • wrist
  • elbow
  • knee
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What is Gouty tophi?

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  • subcutaneous deposits of uric acid
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Where does gouty tophi typically affect?

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  • hands
  • elbows ears
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What are the differentials for gout?

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  • Septic arthritis - exclude this
  • reactive arthritis
  • haemarthrosis
  • calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD)
  • palindromic RA
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What are the causes of gout?

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  • Underexcretion of uric acid by kidney
    • idiopathic
    • renal failure
    • thiazide, aspirin
  • Over production of purines
    • high purine diet (shellfish, meat, anchovies)
  • Genetic predisposition
  • Chemo/radiotherapy
  • Lesch Nyhan Syndrome
  • Phosphoribosyl Pyrophosphate Synthase Excess
  • Von Gierke Disease
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What are the RF for Gout?

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  • Male
  • Obesity
  • High purine diet (e.g. meat and seafood)
  • DM
  • Alcohol
  • Diuretics
  • Existing cardiovascular or kidney disease
  • Family history
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What is the Px of Gout?

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  1. Plasma saturated with urate acid
  2. urate acid react c sodium > form monosodium urate crystals
  3. urate crystals deposit in soft tissues and joints
  4. tissue damage > gout attack triggered
  5. influx of neutrophils into joints
  6. joint swelling > cleared spotaeneously in 10 days
  7. persistent gout attacks > chronic gout
  8. permanent deposition of urate cyrstals around joint
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What disease are associated c gout?

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  • CVS diseases
  • HTN
  • DM
  • CRF
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How would you Ix for gout?

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  • Serum urate: high
    • can be normal in chronic haemolytic anaemia
  • Fluid aspiration
  • Joint xray
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What are the features of fluid aspiration of gout?

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  • Needle shaped crystals
  • Negative birefringent of polarised light
  • Monosodium urate crystals

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What are the xray features of gout?

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  • soft tissue swelling (early stage)
  • Lytic lesions in the bone
  • Punched out erosions
  • Erosions can have sclerotic borders with overhanging edges
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How would you Mx gout during acute flare?

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  • NSAID or Colchicine - first line
    • PPI for gastro protection
  • Steroids (15mg Pred/day) - if NSAID or Colchicine contraindicated
    • for renal impaired
  • Ice packs
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What are the prophylaxis management of gout?

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  • Allopurionol
    • dec uric acid levels
  • febuxostat - if allopurinol contraindicated
  • Lifestyle changes
    • reduce alcohol intake and avoid during an acute attack
    • lose weight if obese
    • avoid food high in purines
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What is MOA of allopurinol? When can you not initiate Allopurinol?

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  • xanthine oxidase inhibitor
  • before acute attack settles. only when allopurinol started then it can be continued during an acute attack
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What drug class is Colchicine?

and what is the MOA?

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  • anti-gout agents
  • tubulin disruption > down regulation of inflammatory patyhway
17
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What are the differentials for gout?

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  • Septic arthritis
  • Olecranon bursitis
  • Milwaukee shoulder
  • Chondrocalcinosis
  • Pseudogout
  • Arthritis
  • Haemochromatosis
18
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How do you tell the difference between gout and pseudogout on xray?

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  • Chondrocalcinosis
19
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What is pseudogout?

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  • microcrystal synovitis caused by the deposition of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals in the synovium
20
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What are the RF of pseudogout?

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  • Increasing age
  • If pseudogout develop younger (<60)
    • haemochromatosis
    • hyperparathyroidism
    • low magnesium, low phosphate
    • acromegaly, Wilson’s disease
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What are the features of pseudogout?

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  • knee, wrist and shoulders most commonly affected
  • joint aspiration: weakly-positively birefringent rhomboid-shaped crystals
  • x-ray: chondrocalcinosis
  • in the knee this can be seen as linear calcifications of the meniscus and articular cartilage
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How would you Mx pseudogout?

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  • aspiration of joint fluid, to exclude septic arthritis
  • NSAIDs or intra-articular, intra-muscular or oral steroids as for gout
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