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2 URATE NEPHROPATHY: A RARE BUT NOT VANISHED ENTITY
Chronic urate nephropathy in the past decades was a frequent cause of renal failure in gouty patients but this entity has become very rare in the recent years and in many centers of hemodialysis the registries...
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PRIMARY GOUT IN AGING PATIENTS: 26
We observed late onset - over 65 years of age - of gout in 15 patients or in 14% out of 104 patients.
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Mediterranean Symposium of rheumatology
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HDL-Cholesterol Levels in Gouty Patients
Lipoprotein abnormalities are common in gout. The most frequent is hypertriglyceridemia, which has been reported in three-quarters of patients with primary gout (1, 2). This alteration may or may not be relate...
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Urinary cAMP Excretion in Gouty Patients with and Without Nephrolithiasis
The prevalence of nephrolithiasis in patients with primary gout is very high, ranging from 10 to 40%, except in Israel where 75% of gouty subjects are afflicted with renal calculi (1).
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Gas-Chromatographic Evaluation of Urinary 17-Ketosteroids, Etiocholanolone and Dehydroepiandrosterone in Primary Gout and Hyperuricemia
Sex and age differences in the incidence of gout have suggested that hormonal influences play an important role in the pathogenesis of hyperuricemia and gout. Several possible modes of action have so far been ...
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Erythrocyte Adenosine-Deaminase Activity in Gout and Hyperuricemia
Adenosine-Deaminase (adenosine-aminohydrolase EC 3.5.4.4.) (ADA) catalyses the irreversible hydrolytic deamination of adenosine to produce inosine and ammonia. Inosine is then cleaved by Purine-Nucleoside-Phos...
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Xanthine Oxidase Activity in a Gouty Patient with Partial Deficiency of HGPRT
Xanthine oxidase is an enzyme which is directly uricogenetic, as it catalyzes the aerobic dehydrogenation of hypoxanthine to xanthine and of xanthine to uric acid, these being the final steps in purine metabol...
