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A patient may have asymptomatic hyperuricemia that does not need to be treated.
Explanation
You do not have to treat asymptomatic pts with hyperuricemia.
other causes for calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals are asymptomatic chondroclacinosis and chronic arthropathy.
poly morpho nuclear cells are granulocytes.
Estrogen appears to be protective of developing gout.
You never check for uric acid level to see if a patient has gout. The uric acid has moved out of the serum into the joint.
allopurinol is used to treat chronic gout.
low dose aspirin leads to undersecretion of uric acid.
xanthine oxidase is involved inthe formation of uric acid and not the break down.
diuretics lead to hyperuricemia due to undersecretion as they compete with uric acid crystals at the distal tubules.
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