[Clinical manifestations of gout].
Gout is a chronic disease, clearly progressing in incidence and prevalence, which threaten to pose a real problem of public health in the near future. Gout is to be understood for as the progression in a continuum of a single and same disease: hyperuricemia. This awareness allows to better apprehend the disease's evolution, to understand clinical manifestations and to plan treatment in a rational way.
Revaz
S
S
Service de rhumatologie, medecine physique et réhabilitation CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. Sylvie.Revaz@chuv.ch
Dudler
J
J
D006073:Gout / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D033461:Hyperuricemia / Q000209:etiology