making a small cut on the skin above the tophus and removing it by hand joint replacement surgery if the joint has become damaged and difficult to use Some treatment options for gout that can help ...

Management The patient declined an arthroscopic procedure to remove the gouty tophi. Treatment consisted of continuous allopurinol therapy and narcotics for symptomatic pain relief. Over the next ...

Tophi are firm, painless yellow lesions that form in and around the joints in people with advanced gout. They have a uric acid (monosodium urate) core, and the skin that covers them can become ...

My husband suffers from gout and has had tophi on both elbows for a few years now. Can they be surgically removed? My husband has had 3 conflicting diagnoses with regards to removing the tophi from ...

These decrements in HRQOL vary across the spectrum of clinical phenotypes according to the presence and frequency of gout symptoms and signs. Patients with confirmed tophi and more frequent acute ...

The impairment of HRQOL in patients with gout increases with the presence of tophi and the frequency of flares, even after adjusting for covariates. Gout symptoms are also associated with greater ...

gout of foot The investigational drug AR882 appeared more effective and safer than allopurinol monotherapy in a phase 2 trial. A novel selective URAT1 inhibitor, AR882, further reduces serum uric ...