Gout: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment - Arthritis Foundation
网页Gout is the most common type of inflammatory arthritis. It causes sudden and intense attacks of joint pain, often in the big toe and at night. It can also strike joints in other toes or the ankle or knee. People with osteoarthritis in their fingers may experience their first gout attack in their finger joints.
Gout - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
网页2022年11月16日 · Gout is a common and complex form of arthritis that can affect anyone. It's characterized by sudden, severe attacks of pain, swelling, redness and tenderness in one or more joints, most often in the big toe.
Treatment of gout flares - UpToDate
网页2023年11月30日 · A gout flare is intensely painful and disabling. Typically, a gout flare affects a single joint, although flares affecting multiple joints can occur. Without therapy, a gout flare usually resolves completely within a few days to several weeks, particularly in early disease. However, symptoms improve faster with treatment [1].
Gout: Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention - Cleveland Clinic
网页2023年2月19日 · Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis that causes pain and swelling in your joints. Gout happens when there’s a buildup of uric acid in your body. Gout most commonly affects your big toe joint. But it can affect other joints, including your: Knees. Ankles. Feet. Hands and wrists. Elbows.
Gout Symptoms and Diagnosis - Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center
网页A typical gout attack is characterized by the sudden onset of severe pain, swelling, warmth, and redness of a joint. The clinical presentation of acute gouty arthritis is not subtle with very few mimics other than a bacterial infection.
Gout - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
网页2022年11月16日 · Doctors usually diagnose gout based on your symptoms and the appearance of the affected joint. Tests to help diagnose gout may include: Joint fluid test. Your doctor may use a needle to draw fluid from your affected joint. Urate crystals may be visible when the fluid is examined under a microscope.
Gouty Arthritis: A Review of Acute Management and Prevention
网页In this review, we discuss the epidemiology and risk factors for gouty arthritis and evaluate diagnostic strategies and therapeutic regimens for the management of gout, including a new drug approval. Keywords: arthritis; assessment; gout; gouty; management; prevention; review; treatment.
Gout/Gouty Arthritis In Depth: Risk Factors, Treatment - HSS
网页When gout occurs, the joint tends to be extremely painful and is warm, red and swollen (Figure 6: Toe with Acute Attack of Gout). The inflammation that is part of a gout attack is systemic, so that fever and chills, fatigue and malaise are not uncommonly part of the picture of a gout attack.
What Is Gout? - Verywell Health
网页2023年3月6日 · What Causes Gout? How Is Gout Diagnosed? Anti-Inflammatory Gout Diet. How Is Gout Treated? Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis. It occurs when uric acid crystals accumulate in one (or rarely several) of the body’s joints. This painful condition often comes on without warning and most commonly affects the base of the big toe.
Gout Symptoms and Treatments - WebMD
网页2023年9月10日 · What Is Gout? Without warning and, for some reason, in the middle of the night, gout strikes. It’s an intense pain in a joint, most often the big toe, but sometimes other joints, including...