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Clinical presentation of gout. -Recurrent, painful attacks of monoarticular joint inflammation, pain, tenderness, erythema, and swelling, -Excruciating pain that awakens the patient at night, describing the pain as throbbing, crushing, and pulsating, -Pain not relieved by rest or position change, - Pain often in early morning due to dehydration.
You are providing a free clinic seminar to participants about gout. Which statement by a participant about the occurrence of gout is correct? A."Gout attacks tend to awake the person out of their sleep in the middle of the night." B. "The pain felt with gout tends to be intense during the first 30 minutes." C.
Gout is a disease produced by the deposit of microscopic uric acid crystals in the joints, causing their painful inflammation. Sometimes, these crystals form accumulations that can be felt -tophos-, or they are deposited in the kidneys, causing nephritic colics or alterations in their function.
Check if it's gout. The main symptoms of gout are: sudden severe pain in a joint – usually your big toe, but it can be in other joints in your feet, ankles, hands, wrists, elbows or knees. hot, swollen, red skin over the affected joint – redness may be harder to see on black or brown skin.
Gout (/ ɡaʊt / GOWT[ 9 ]) is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of pain in a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint, [ 4 ][ 10 ] caused by the deposition of needle-like crystals of uric acid known as monosodium urate crystals. [ 11 ] .
4 Ιουλ 2024 · Gout is caused by a chemical in the blood, called uric acid (urate). Uric acid is usually harmless and is made in the body. Most is passed out with the urine and some from the gut with the stools.
