Treatment Guidelines in GoutAllan C. Gelber MD, MPH, PhD EnvelopeRheumatic Disease Clinics of North America
To describe the current pharmacological approach to gout treatment reported by rheumatologists in Brazil.We performed a cross-sectional survey study using an online questionnaire e-mailed to 395 rheumatologists, randomly selected, from among the members of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology.Three hund...
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I consider myself to be ameticulous methodologistopens in a new tab or window, but do not ask me to develop guidelines for the treatment of gout or prostate cancer. First and foremost, guidelines are clinical documents. Methodologists who forget that suffer from incurable hubris. Here is my...
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Interactions between antihypertensive drugs and drugs for the treatment of other diseases include the attenuation of the hypotensive effects of diuretics, b- blockers, ACE inhibitors and ARBs by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, enhancement of the hypotensive effects of Ca channel blockers and b-...
A low dose colchicine regimen is effective and better tolerated than the traditional use of higher doses in acute gout. Alternative measures for acute gout include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and corticosteroids. Allopurinol is the most widely used initial therapy; treatment is ...
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For instance, achieving lower BP target (diastolic BP of 85 mmHg vs. 100 mmHg) has decreased severe hypertension rates while not increasing maternal or fetal risk [35]. In the case of women with hypertension-mediated target organ damage, the initiation of antihypertensive treatment at a ...
After pulse therapy, prednisone 0.5–1 mg kg−1 d−1 or equivalent should be taken orally, usually for 4–8 weeks, but the duration of treatment depends on the patient's condition.[15,56] Pulse therapy resulted in rapid disease control without significant increased adverse reactions ...