title: Gout in females: an analysis of 92 patients.
abstract: Ninety-two females with gout are reported. The preliminary ARA criteria for acute gout classified 60% of the patients. Forty patients were diagnosed by finding tophi or urate crystals in the synovial fluid, 16 patients had the ARA clinical criteria for gout, and a further 36 patients were considered to have good clinical grounds for gouty arthritis. Classification of the patients was difficult. A subacute pauci-/polyarthritis was the presenting feature in 64 (70%) patients and in 49 (77%) there was no history of a preceding recurrent monoarthritis. Seventy-two patients (78%) were on diuretics. Tophi were usually indolent and showed little surrounding inflammation. 87% of the patients had an associated disease.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006073:Gout / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D014527:Uric Acid