title: Hypouricaemia as a marker of a generalized proximal tubular damage in alcoholic patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Hypouricaemia is not frequently encountered in alcoholic patients. Described herein is the case of a 69-year-old alcoholic patient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patient presented with severe hypouricaemia (serum uric acid 95.2 micro mol/l) due to renal urate wasting associated with a cluster of other metabolic abnormalities in the context of a reversible generalized dysfunction of the proximal tubules that mimicked Fanconi syndrome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The underlying mechanisms of this rare presentation are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: Evagelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Liberopoulos
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Miltiadous
authors.forename: Moses
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elisaf
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000097:blood; D007687:Kidney Tubules, Proximal / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D014527:Uric Acid