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Fitzy: Pharmacology of Gout and Hyperuricemia Flashcards

1
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What transporter in the kidney will let us reabsorb urate?

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-URAT1

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2
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Where does Uric acid come from?

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  • Purines
  • fructos
  • alcohol
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3
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What enzyme makes uric acid?

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-Xanthine Oxidase

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4
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What are some other factors besides hyperuricemia that contribute to gout attacks in the first metatarsal phalangeal joint?

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  • temperature
  • pH
  • joint hydration: this is why there’s nocturnal pain
  • Presence of altered matrix proteins, exposed cartilage fragments and nucleating debris
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5
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What are the two XO inhibitors?

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  • Allopurinol

- Febuxostat

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What are the drugs that turn uric acid into a more soluble form?

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  • rasburicase
  • pegloticase
  • uricosolytics
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7
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What is the one anti inflammatory gout specific drug?

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-colchicine

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What is that unique MOA for Colchicine?

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  • binds to tubulin and depolimerizes microtubules
  • disrupts granulocyte function; inhibits LTB4 formation
  • *kind of paralyzes neutrophils… they can’t migrate to the site inflammation… this is used specifically for gout
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9
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what is the mainstay of therapy of acute gout attacks in patients who have no contraindications to them?

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-NSAIDS!

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when do we have to use caution with NSAIDs?

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  • ulcers
  • htn
  • coronary disease
  • fluid retention
  • remember that the dose of NSAIDs needed to resolve gout attack are on the higher side
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11
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How much ibuprofen should a person with gout take?

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-2 tabs three times a day is often insufficent! so they need to take a shit ton

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What does colchicine do again?

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  • binds to tubulin, depolymerizes microtubules, and imparis migration of granulocytes
  • thereby blunting inflammation
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13
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What is the maximum does for colchicine?

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-12 tablets per episode

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14
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Is colchicine an analgesic?

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-no

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15
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Does colchicine modify uric acid levels?

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-no

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16
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What confers long term risks, such as osteoporosis and infection, but has low risk for short-term risks?

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-corticosteroids

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What aer the adverse effects of corticosteroids that we have to worry about?

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  • adverse effects on bp and blood sugar

- so if they have htn or uncontrolled diabetes mellitus

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18
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What are the 2 XO inhibitors?

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  • allopurinol
  • febuxostate
  • they inhibit urate biosynthesis
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19
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What are the 2 drugs that are uricosuric agents (URAT1 inhibitors)?

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  • Probenecid
  • Sulfinpyrazone
  • they enhance urate excretion
20
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What are the recombinant urate oxidase enzymes?

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  • pegloticase
  • rasburicase
  • they enhance urate metabolism
21
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What is the only uricosuric agent available in US?

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-Probenecid

22
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What is the 1st line urate lowering therapy (ULT) in gout?

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  • XO inhibitors
  • allopurinol
  • febuxostat
23
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What accumulates as a result of tx with allopurinol and febuxostat?

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-hypoxanthine is the best answer

24
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What is the active metabolite of allopurinol?

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  • oxyurinol

- has long ass half life

25
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Why is febuxostat better than allopurinol?

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  • has better and different adverse effect profile vs allopurinol
  • can be used in patients with renal disease
26
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What is that one wierd paradox thing with ULT?

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-during the initial phase of ULT, there is an early increase in acute gout attacks

27
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What do we give as well to people who are beginning ULT to decrease acute gout associated with initiation of ULT?

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-colchicine or an NSAID

28
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What is a big thing that we have to worry about with allopurinol and febuxostat?

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-they inhibit metabolism of Xanthine drugs use in cancer chemotherapy, immunosuppression, asthma conferring risk of overexposure and requiring dose adjustments

29
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What were the Xanthine drugs that build up when we inhibit XO?

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  • 6 mercaptopurine
  • Azathioprine
  • Theophylline
30
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Which xanthine drug makes people edgy when they don’t clear it?

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-theophylline

31
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What is the black box warning with allopurinol?

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  • Allopurinol should be discontinued at the first appearance of skin rash or other signs of an allergic rxn
  • it is not recommended for tx of asymptomatic hyperuricemia
32
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What genotype do we have to worry about and make them avoid allopurinol?

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  • HLA-B*5801
  • severe hypersensitivity to allopurinol
  • Han Chinese, Thai descent
33
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What drug combo is appropriate in some patients to achieve the serum urate target (<6mg/dL)?

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  • oral ULT

- oral uricosuric agent (probenecid)

34
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What are uricosuric drugs?

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  • weak organic acids that promote renal clearance of uric acid by inhibiting urat-anion exchangers in the proximal tubule that mediates urate reabsorption
  • Probenecid remember that
35
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What does probenecid do specifically?

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  • blocks URAT1 transporter on apical membrane of epithelium

- promotes excretion

36
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When should uricosuric agents (probenecid) be avoided?

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-in pts with risk/hx of nephrolithiasis or uric acid nephropathy

37
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Should urate-lowering therapies be initiated during an acute attack?

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  • no

- they are of no benefit for acute gout

38
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What is the paradox thing with aspirin?

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  • do not use standard dose aspirin as an anti-inflammatory agent for acute gout attacks
  • aspirin blocks tubular secretion>tubular absorption and thereby aggravates hyperuricemia
39
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What kind of a dose of aspirin do we need to give them to have a uricosuric effect?

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-a very high dose

40
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Will thiazide and loop diuretics help?

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  • no!
  • they interfere with urate clearance by effects on multiple transporters in the prox renal tubule
  • this causes uric acid retention
41
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What is kind of the last stitch effort we use for gout?

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-ULT with a urate oxidase recombinant enzyme (pegloticase) is appropriate for severe disease, failure, or intolerance to appropriately dosed XOI options

42
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What does Pegloticase and rasburicase do?

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-these drugs augment metabolic degradation of uric acid into allantoin

43
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What do we use pegloticase for?

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-hyperuricemia associated with malignancy (tumor lysis syndrome)

44
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What do we use rasburicase for?

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-approved for gout-associated hyperuricemia

45
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How is pegloticase and rasburicase given to patients?

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-IV… not a pill

46
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What is rasburicase contraindicated in?

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  • G6PD deficiency

- gives them hemolysis

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