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Gout: will the "King of Diseases" be the first rheumatic disease to be cured?
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Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis in adults in the Western world.
Characterized by hyperuricemia and the effects of acute and chronic inflammation
in joints and bursa, gout leads to an agonizing, chronically painful arthritis.
Arthritis can also be accompanied by urate nephropathy and subcutaneous urate
deposits (tophi). Exciting new developments in the last decade have brought back
the focus on this interesting, crystal-induced chronic inflammatory condition.
New insights include the role of NALP3 inflammasome-induced inflammation in acute
gout, the characterization of diagnostic signs on ultrasound and dual-energy
computed tomography imaging modalities, the recognition of target serum urate
less than 6 mg/day as the goal for urate-lowering therapies, and evidence-based
treatment guidelines. A better understanding of disease mechanisms has enabled
drug discovery - three new urate-lowering drugs have been approved in the last
decade, with several more in the pipeline. We now recognize the important role
that environment and genetics play in the causation of gout. A focus on the
cardiac, renal, and metabolic comorbidities of gout will help translational
research and discovery over the next decade.