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Gout S/Sx: (Pts may have:)

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  • Hyperuricemia
  • Recurring attacks of acute arthritis
  • Tophi
  • Renal disease
  • Uric acid nephrolithiasis
  • Chronic deforming arthritis
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What are tophi?

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deposits of monosodium urate monohydrate crystals)

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Gout: Epidemiology/RF?

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  • Men > Women (90% are men). Men: 40-60. Women: after 60.
  • Pacific Islanders (Filipinos, Samoans)
  • ALCOHOL (especially beer)
  • OBESITY
  • Genetic in some
  • Foods that promote hyperuricemia
  • Chronic diseases
  • Medications
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Gout: What foods may promote hyperuricemia?

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  • Red meat
  • Seafood
  • Fructose
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Gout: What food is protective for hyperuricemia?

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Dairy products

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Gout: Which medications affect urate balance?

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  • Thiazides
  • Loop diuretics
  • Low-dose ASA
  • Cyclosporine
  • Niacin
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Gout pathophysiology: Serum urate levels for hyperuricemia?

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> 6.8 mg/dL

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(T/F) For gout to result from hyperuricemia, serum urate levels are typically above 6.8 mg/dL prior to the onset of gout S/Sx.

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  • False. Especially rapid fluctuations in serum levels can precipitate S/Sx.
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T/F: To dx a Pt with gout, they must have hyperuricemia

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False. Hyperuricemia needed (but hyperuricemia ≠ gout)

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For gout, _______ level has to be high enough for crystals to precipitate

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monosodium urate (MSU)

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Gout: How does resolution of acute inflammation occur?

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  • Mediated by immune mechanisms (even without treatment)
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Gout: long term Complications?

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  • Chronic inflammatory process which has an effect on osteoclasts, blasts, and chondrocytes that contribute to tophi formation, erosion of bone, and joint injury.
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Uric acid is the end product of ______ metabolism

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purine

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When considering uric acid balance, what are the two major categories?

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  • Underexcreters

- Overproducers

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Uric acid balance: Which group is more common, underexcreters or overproducers?

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  • Underexcreters
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Conditions associated with being an underexcreter?

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  • Renal insufficiency
  • Acidosis (ie: diabetic ketoacidosis, ketogenic diet, lactic acidosis)
  • Volume depletion/dehydration
  • Lead exposure
  • Medications
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Uric acid balance: Which medications can make one under-excrete uric acid?

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  • **Low-dose ASA
  • ** Thiazides
  • **Loop diuretics
  • Nicotinic acid
  • Cyclosporine
  • Levodopa
  • Ethambutol
  • Pyrazinamide
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Uric acid balance: What conditions can make one overproduce uric acid?

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  • Inherited defect of metabolism
  • Myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative disorders, polycythemia, carcinoma–> Tumor lysis syndrome
  • Chronic hemolytic anemias
  • Transient hyperuricemia associated with ATP consumption.
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Uric acid balance: What inherited defect of metabolism can lead to an overproduction of uric acid?

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  • Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

- Kelley-Seegmiller syndrome

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Uric acid balance: What are examples of transient hyperuricemia associated with ATP consumption?

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  • Strenuous exercise
  • Status epilepticus
  • MI
  • Sepsis
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Gout: What are the 3 stages of gout?

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1) Acute gouty arthritis
2) Intercritical (Interval) gout
3) Chronic articular and tophaceous gout.

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Acute Gouty Arthritis- Chief complaint/Hx

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  • “My big toe hurts”
  • Sudden onset, often at night
  • Severely painful and tender, swollen joint, red, warm
  • May complain of fever
  • Reaches maximal severity in about 12-24 hours
  • May have history of similar attacks prior
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Acute gouty arthritis: PE findings?

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  • Swollen, very tender, red and warm overlying skin.
  • (+/-) desquamation
  • (+/-) Tophi
  • (+/-) Podagra
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Acute gouty arthritis: MC site?

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  • MTP of great toe is classic
  • “Podagra”
  • *Usually monoarticular and in the lower extremity
  • *Polyarticular is possible (usually later flares)
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What physical exam finding is pathognomonic for gout?

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tophi (Irregular, asymmetric macroscopic deposits of urate)

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Common sites for tophi?

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  • External ear
  • Hands
  • Olecranon
  • Feet
  • Knee
  • Achilles tendon
  • Forearm
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Gout: Are tophi painful?

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  • Usually painless (but can become acutely inflamed)

- - Usually develop after years.

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Gout: How can tophi be destructive over the sites they are found?

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  • Maintains a state of inflammation

- Promote tissue and joint destruction around them.

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Renal complications of gout?

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  • **Uric acid nephrolithiasis
  • **Chronic urate nephropathy
  • Uric acid nephropathy
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How can gout cause chronic urate nephropathy?

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MSU crystals are deposited in the renal medulla and pyramids

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Describe nephropathy

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Nephropathy is a disease of the kidneys caused by damage to the small blood vessels or to the units in the kidneys that clean the blood.

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How does gout cause uric acid nephropathy?

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  • Acute renal failure (ARF) when large amounts of uric acid and crystals precipitate in the collecting ducts and ureters.
  • Usually seen as part of tumor lysis syndrome
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DDx of acute gout?

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  • Septic arthritis
  • Trauma
  • Calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition (CPPD) disease (pseudogout)
  • Cellulitis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Lyme disease
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DDx of chronic gout?

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  • Osteoarthritis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Psoriatic arthritis
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Gout: Labs & Imaging for Dx?

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  • Synovial fluid analysis
  • U/S
  • Radiographs
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What would you find in an aspirate of synovial fluid (analysis)? KNOW

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  • Monosodium urate crystals

- “Negatively birefringent”, needle-like, when viewed with polarized light microscopy. KNOW!!

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Gout labs: U/S findings?

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  • Hyperechoic linear density (double contour sign) over the joint cartilage or deposits that look like tophi (hypoechoic cloudy area)`
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Gout labs: Radiograph findings?

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  • “Rat bite” lesions later in disease process

- If next to a tophus = gout.

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Gout labs: Additional labs?

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  • Serum uric acid (often elevated in most Pts during an attack)
  • Peripheral WBC (can be high)
  • ESR/CRP (can be elevated)
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Gout Tx: If PT is asymptomatic but has hyperuricemia?

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Don’t treat

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Gout Tx: Lifestyle modifications?

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  • Lose weight
  • Reduce alcohol consumption
  • Reduce purine-rich food consumption
  • Drink enough fluids to urinate >-2L per day
  • Avoid hyperuricemic meds, if possible.
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Gout Tx: Tx goal?

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  • Relieve the patient’s pain as quickly as possible.

- Keep in mind comorbidities when selecting meds

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Gout Tx: (T/F) urate-lowering medications are the medications that can help the patient’s pain management in acute attacks.

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False! they don’t help in acute attacks- don’t start one during acute attack

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Gout Tx: What is an example of a common urate-lowering medication?

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Allopurinol

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Gout Tx: If a patient is on a urate-lowering medication and a gout flare-up occurs, should they discontinue that medication for the duration of the flare-up?

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  • No

- Continue as prescribed.

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Gout Tx: What is the 1st line medication for an acute attack?

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Gout Tx: Examples of common NSAIDs for an acute attack?

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  • Naproxen
  • Indomethacin
  • Celecoxib (Celebrex)
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Gout Tx: How do you direct a patient to take an NSAID?

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  • Discontinue 1-2 days after complete clinical resolution.

- (Typical course might be 5-7 days)

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Gout Tx: Contraindications to NSAID usage for acute attacks?

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  • CKD with CrCl < 60
  • Active ulcer
  • NSAID allergy
  • Concurrent use of anticoagulant
  • CV disease (esp. uncontrolled CHF or HTN)
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Gout Tx: What is one of the best antigout medications used in acute attacks in patients who cannot take NSAIDs?

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Colchicine

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Gout Tx: When should a patient start taking colchicine?

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Within 12-24 hours of symptoms

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Gout Tx: Colchicine administration instructions? Doseage?

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  • DAY 1: 1.2 mg initially, then 0.6 mg 1 hour later.
  • DAY 2 (& onward) 0.6 mg QD-BID
  • d/c 2-3 days after symptoms have resolved.
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Gout Tx: Common S/E of colchicine?

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  • Diarrhea
  • Abdominal cramping
  • Reversible peripheral neuropathy may be seen
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Gout Tx: Contraindications to colchicine?

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  • Severe hepatic impairment
  • Severe renal impairment
  • Concomitant use of a mod-strong inhibitor of P-gp and/or CYP3A4 inhibitor
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Gout Tx: When are corticosteroids a good option?

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  • Good for people who can’t take NSAIDs or colchicine
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Gout Tx: How could you administer the corticosteroid during an acute attack? (routes and medication name)

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  • Intra-articular injection: triamcinolone 40 mg (large joint), 30 mg for a medium joint, or 10 mg for a small joint
  • Oral: prednisone 40-60 mg/day tapered over 7 days
  • IV: methylprednisolone 40 mg/day tapered over 7 days
  • IM: triamcinolone 40-60 mg. May need to repeat 1-2x.
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Gout Tx: Conditions that may be problematic with a corticosteroid plan?

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  • CHF
  • Glucose intolerance (**dont use in diabetic pts)
  • Poor control of HTN
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Preventative Gout Tx: At what stage of gout would you address preventative measures?

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During the intercritical period

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Preventative Gout Tx: Goal?

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  • To achieve a serum urate level <6 mg/dL

- Slowly (not more than 1-2 mg/dL/month)

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Preventative Gout Tx: Indications for urate-lowering medications?

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  • Frequent gout attacks
  • Tophi
  • Clinical or radiographic signs of chronic gouty arthropathy
  • Gout with renal insufficiency
  • Recurrent uric acid nephrolithiasis
  • Premenopausal women or men <25 with urinary uric acid excretion >1100 mg/day
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Preventative Gout Tx: When initiating antihyperuricemic therapy, what else do you have to consider?

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  • Use low-dose prophylactic colchicine (or low-dose NSAID) when initiating antihyperuricemic therapy to reduce risk for acute flare.
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Preventative Gout Tx: Why should you use low-dose prophylactic colchicine (or low-dose NSAID) when initiating antihyperuricemic therapy?

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To reduce risk for acute flare.

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Preventative Gout Tx: What is the class of medication most commonly used to prevent gout flare-ups?

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Xanthine oxidase inhibitors (XOI)

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Preventative Gout Tx: What are the two main XOI medications used?

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  • Allopurinol

- Febuxostat

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XOI: Action of these medications?

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  • Reduce production of uric acid.
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XOI: Dosage and instructions for initiating allopurinol?

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  • Start at 100mg/day

- Titrate up every 2-5 weeks

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XOI: Most people who take allopurinol require what dosage a day?

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≥300 mg/day

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XOI: When would you reduce the recommended initial dose of allopurinol in a patient?

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In PTs with CKD

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XOI: When initiating allopurinol, what other medication should you also initiate?

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  • Prophylactic colchicine (OR)

- Low-dose NSAID

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XOI: S/E of allopurinol?

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rash, including severe cutaneous reactions/TEN (especially in Asian patients, those with HLA-B*5801 allele)

-(Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a rare, life-threatening skin reaction, usually caused by a medication. It’s a severe form of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS).)

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XOI: Febuxostate initial dosage?

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  • Start at 40mg/day and titrate up to 80mg after 2 weeks.
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XOI: When initiating Febuxostat, what other medication do you want to initiate?

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  • Prophylactic colchicine (OR)

- Low-dose NSAID

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XOI: S/E of febuxostat?

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  • Less hypersensitivity reactions

- Can develop abnormal LFTs, and slightly higher rate of cardiovascular events

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Gout Tx: Describe uricosuric medications.

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  • Block tubular reabsorption of urate and increases the rate that uric acid is renally excreted.
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Gout Tx: When considering initiating a uricosuric medication, what baseline lab would you consider having?

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  • The PT must have normal renal function (CrCl > 60)
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Gout Tx: When a patient initiates uricosuric medications, what do you need to advise the patient of?

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  • Urinate at least 2L/day to avoid precipitation of uric acid in urinary tract.
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Gout Tx: Common uricosuric medication? and S/E?

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*Probenecid 
S/E: - Rash
- Precipitation of acute gout
- GI intolerance
- Uric acid stone formation
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Gout Tx: Uricosuric medications are contraindicated in which patients?

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  • renal hypofunction (CrCl<60)

- **PTs with G6PD

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Gout Tx: When would you consider treating a patient with uricase?

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  • For patients who have been refractory to all other therapies.
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Gout Tx: Describe uricase.

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An enzyme present in other mammals that breaks urate down to allantoin, which is more easily excreted.

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Gout Tx: Common uricase medication?

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  • Pegloticase: given IV every 2 weeks
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Gout Tx: What special considerations need to be made before starting a uricase therapy?

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  • Need to have premedication for infusion reactions and have gout flare prophylaxis for the first 6 months of therapy.
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Gout Tx: Uricase is contraindicated in which patients?

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  • PTs with G6PD deficiency.
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Gout Tx: How do you choose your treatment?

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  • 24-hour urine uric acid test.

- Determine if the patient is an undersecreter of uric acid or an overproducer of uric acid.

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Gout Tx: When looking at the results of a 24-hour urine uric acid test, what is the lab value point that separates undersecreters from overproducers?

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<800 mg/dL–> they are an undersecreter of uric acid

> 800 mg/d–> they are an overproducer

In both cases give them an XOI
-if they fail XOI–> give uricase
Give allopurinol!! best choice

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Gout Tx: Interpret a 24-hour urine uric acid test of 922 mg/dL

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  • Overproducer
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Gout Tx: Interpret a 24-hour urine uric acid test of 700 mg/dL

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  • Undersecreter
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Prognosis/Referral:

-what should you educate the Pt on regarding acute gouty attacks?

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  • Acute attack will self-resolve even without treatment
  • Over time, attacks will become more frequent and last longer
  • The younger a patient is at initial presentation, the more likely to have a progressive course
  • With urate-lowering meds, much less chronic gouty arthritis, tophi, and deformity
  • -Can refer to rheumatology
  • Follow up
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Describe Pseudogout

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-Also known as calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD or CPP) deposition disease, chondrocalcinosis, or pyrophosphate arthropathy

=Arthropathy caused by precipitation of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals that can cause acute, recurrent, or chronic arthritis which can mimic gout.

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Chondrocalcinosis=

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Radiographic evidence of calcification in articular cartilage

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Risk factors for Pseudogout

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  • Older adults, both men and women
  • Increases in prevalence with increasing age
  • Rare before 55.
  • Around 50% of those >85 are affected
  • Joint trauma
  • Familial chondrocalcinosis
  • Hemochromatosis
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Most CPPD (aka pseudogout) is _____

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idiopathic

–but Early-onset familial CPPD with chromosomal linkages

93
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Describe the pathophysiology of CPPD

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  1. Excess pyrophosphate production in cartilage–> calcium pyrophosphate supersaturation–> CPP crystals are formed/deposited
  2. The CPP crystal is felt to be involved in joint inflammation
  3. Inflammation triggered by CPPD degrades cartilage
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Clinical Sx of CPPD (2 types)

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  • asymptomatic

- Acute arthritis/pseudogout

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Asymptomatic CPPD Pt lab findings

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May see CPP deposition in a joint on a radiograph but have no symptoms

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Acute Arthritis/pseudogout Sx

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  • Self-limited, sudden attacks of pain, redness, warmth, disability, and swelling, monoarticular or oligoarticular
  • *Knee is most commonly affected.
  • Others: wrists, shoulders, elbows, ankles
  • Can be provoked by surgery (esp. parathyroidectomy), trauma, or major illness
  • May have associated fever/chills
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Chronic CPP crystal inflammatory arthritis (“pseudo-RA”) - describe this disorder

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-Inflammatory arthritis where CPP crystals can be found in joint fluid
-Similar Sx to RA, involving multiple joints in a symmetric patterns
-Usually affects joints unaffected by OA
MCPs, wrists, elbows, glenohumeral joints
-Asynchronous waxing and waning of inflamed joints

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OA with CPPD (“pseudo-OA”)

Describe this disorder

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About half of symptomatic patients have progressive joint degeneration

  • -Knees most common. Also wrists, MCPs, hips, shoulders, elbows, spine
  • -Clinical exam like that of OA (tenderness, bony enlargement, crepitus, restriction of motion)
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Pseudo-neuropathic joint disease

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=Severe joint degeneration from CPP crystal deposition

  • Resembles neuropathic arthropathy
  • Unlike neuropathic arthropathy, there is not usually any neurologic impairment
100
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DDx for Acute arthritis/pseudogout

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Gout
Septic arthritis
Trauma
Lyme disease

101
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DDx for Chronic CPP

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Osteoarthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Peripheral spondyloarthritis
Neuropathic arthropathy

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Dx: Lab findings for CPPD

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  • *CPP crystals in joint aspirate are diagnostic
  • **“weakly positively birefringent rhomboid crystals” by polarized light microscopy
  • Radiographic evidence of chondrocalcinosis:
  • -Linear and punctate densities within hyaline or articular cartilage
  • -Often see degenerative changes (subchondral cysts, osteophyte formation, fragmentation of bone and cartilage)
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Tx Acute pseudogout

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  • Aspiration then intraarticular glucocorticoid injection–>Triamcinolone
  • NSAIDs: Indomethacin, naproxen, salicylates
  • Colchicine
  • Systemic corticosteroids (oral, IV, or IM)
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Tx OA with CPPD

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Treat like OA

105
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Tx Pseudo-neuropathic joint disease

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treat like charcot arthropathy

106
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When should you consider Prophylaxis tx for CPPD?

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Consider if the patient has ≥3 attacks per year
–>Colchicine 0.6 mg PO BID
If this doesn’t work or the patient is intolerant, could use an NSAID instead.

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Pseudo-RA prophylaxis:

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NSAIDs 1st choice (use lowest dose possible): Naproxen, or Indomethacin

  • -Alternatives if NSAIDs ineffective:
  • Colchicine 0.6 mg QD or BID
  • Hydroxychloroquine
  • Low-dose glucocorticoids ie: prednisone (up to 10 mg /day)
108
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Prognosis/Referral: CPPD

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Attacks will resolve even without treatment
Can cause chronic symptoms
Can refer to rheumatology

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Compare & contrast Gout and CPPD Arthropathy

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Gout: middle aged men and elderly men. Joints: MTP, ankles, knees. Dx: Tophi present. Crystals: needle-shaped and strongly negative birefringent

CPPD arthopathy: elderly men and women. Joints: knees MC!! and wrists. NO tophi present. Radiography: Chondrocalcinosis. Crystals: small, rhomboid shaped or weakly positive birefringent

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