Gout and hyperuricemia

Gout is a disease caused by disorders of purine metabolism due to hereditary or acquired causes. Its clinical features are: hyperuricemia and the recurrence of gouty acute arthritis, goutstone deposition, goutstone chronic arthritis and joint deformities, often involving the kidneys and causing chronic interstitial nephritis and uric acidic kidney stones Formation can also cause acute renal failure caused by uric acid stones.

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