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Medications for Prevention of Chronic Gout
Colchicine (Colcrys)
Pegloticase (Krystexxa)
Probenecid
Xanthine oxidase inhibitors:
 - Allopurinol (Zyloprim)
 - Febuxostat (Uloric)
#Chronic
Prevention of Chronic ... Gout Colchicine ... Febuxostat (Uloric) #Chronic ... #Medications #Treatment
Approach to Gout
Diagnosis: r/o septic arthritis! Needle-shaped, negative birefringent crystals
Treatment:
 • Weight loss, diet, d/c culprit
birefringent crystals Treatment ... , Anakinra • Colchicine ... : Acute and chronic ... treatmentChronic ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Gout - Diagnosis and Management Summary

3 Conditions for Gout to Manifest:
1. Hyperuricemia
2. Monosodium urate deposition in
cortical bone Treatment ... • Acute gout treatment ... NSAIDs • Low-dose colchicine ... Concomitant low-dose colchicine ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Pseudogout Summary - Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease (CPPD)

Pathophysiology:
Pyrophosphate produced by chondrocytes likely precipitates with calcium to
Chronic CPP Crystal ... Resembles RA • Chronic ... Acute Pseudogout: Treatment ... • NSAIDs • Colchicine ... • Long-term colchicine
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Arthritis, AS Treatment ... mucocutaneous lesions-Colchicine ... Recurrent and chronic
Medications for Treatment of Acute Gout
 - NSAIDs
 - Colchicine (Colcrys)
 - Corticosteroids
#Acute #Gout #Medications #Treatment
Medications for Treatment ... - NSAIDs - Colchicine ... #Medications #Treatment
Gout Management in CKD
 • Colchicine
 • NSAID
 • Glucocorticoid
 • ACTH
 • Interleukin-1 Inhibitors

#Gout #Management
Management in CKD • Colchicine ... #rheumatology #treatment
Behcet's Syndrome - Treatment
Ulcers:
 • Treatment: Topical steroids
 • Prevention: Colchicine
 • Azathioprine for refractory disease
Arthritis:
Behcet's Syndrome - Treatment ... Ulcers: • Treatment ... • Prevention: Colchicine ... Arthritis: • Colchicine ... topical steroids + colchicine
Creatine Kinase - Causes of Elevated CK Levels
Acute CK Elevation (Pain > Weakness):
 • RHABDOMYOLYSIS
statins, fibrates, colchicine ... exercise Subacute to Chronic ... Statins, fibrates, colchicine ... daptomycin - Chronic
Azithromycin - since there has been a lot of noise around chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine, thought we can take
investigational treatments ... potential DIs with colchicine ... COVID19 #Pandemic #Treatment