Five-minute refresher - gout
In the second of our series, musculoskeletal GPSI Dr Adrian Dunbar outlines essential information on both acute and chronic gout.
Click on the file to the right to download a large, printable version of this flowchart.
Dr Adrian Dunbar is a GPSI in musculoskeletal medicine in Yorkshire
The UK Gout Society is a registered charity which provides basic information to people living with gout, their families, friends and carers. Its goal is to increase public awareness about this painful, potentially disabling, but very treatable, disorder. For more information visit:
Readers' comments (6)
Abdulrehman Rajpura | GP Partner09 Jun 2015 5:54pm
rate is 5 star, very good, good for review and very useful for daily practice . I recommend all dr (g.p.) should read
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment
Anonymous | Sessional/Locum GP11 Jun 2015 8:26am
Nice precise article. Monthly urate levels in order to titrated allurinol may prove tricky given the population that present with gout are usually men in their 50's who are overweight, with untreated high bp and who very rarely visit their GP.
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment
Michael Mackenzie | Sessional/Locum GP11 Jun 2015 2:19pm
5 stars definitely
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment
Gordon Macmillan | Other GP12 Jun 2015 12:45pm
A common disorder and easily recognised but not so easy to treat
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment
Anonymous | GP registrar13 Jun 2015 5:15pm
The article claims that the first metacarpalphalangeal joint is most commnly affected in gout ... Is this an oversight / mistake ?
Isn't the first metatarsalphalengeal joint the most commonly affected??
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment
Anonymous | GP registrar25 Jun 2015 10:50pm
What about cellulitis as a differential diagnosis? I would have thought that this is more common than the other differentials listed..
Unsuitable or offensive? Report this comment