General practice & primary care · UKMLA & AKT
Gout
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
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- Most common inflammatory arthritis in adults; male predominance (4:1); women affected post-menopause (oestrogen is uricosuric)
- Caused by monosodium urate (MSU) crystal deposition from sustained hyperuricaemia (>360 micromol/L)
- 90% are under-excreters of urate; 10% are over-producers
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