PREVENTING ACUTE GOUT WHEN STARTING ALLOPURINOL THERAPY - COLCHICINE OR NSAIDS

Authors
KOT TV DAY RO BROOKS PM
Citation
Tv. Kot et al., PREVENTING ACUTE GOUT WHEN STARTING ALLOPURINOL THERAPY - COLCHICINE OR NSAIDS, Medical journal of Australia, 159(3), 1993, pp. 182-184
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Medical journal of Australia → ACNP
ISSN journal
0025729X
Volume
159
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
182 - 184
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-729X(1993)159:3<182:PAGWSA>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Acute gout is a well known complication of the commencement of allopur inol therapy. Prophylaxis is needed for some months, even after serum urate levels have returned to normal. Colchicine is usually preferable to NSAIDs for this purpose, being cheaper, and better tolerated, espe cially in patients with peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding or dys pepsia or who are taking anticoagulants.