Gout treatment

Question 1

is an alkaloid isolated from the autumn crocus

Answer 1

Colchicine

Question 2

is commonly used in the initial treatment of gout as a replacement for colchicine

Answer 2

Indomethacin

Question 3

Probenecid and sulfinpyrazone

Answer 3

employed to decrease the body pool of urate in patients with tophaceous gout or in those with increasingly frequent gouty attacks

Question 4

new uricosuric agent that is currently in phase 3 trials

Answer 4

Lesinurad

Question 5

The preferred and standard-of-care therapy for gout during the period between acute episodes

Answer 5

Allopurinol

Question 6

is a non-purine xanthine oxidase inhibitor

Answer 6

Febuxostat

Question 7

used in the treatment of severe symptomatic gout

Answer 7

Glucocorticoids

Question 8

Application of glucocorticoid are applied as…

Answer 8

subcutaneous and intra-articular routes

Question 9

most commonly used oral corticosteroid is

Answer 9

predisone

Question 10

Drugs targeting IL-1

Answer 10

Anakinra, Canakinumab, rilonacept