OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of local application of ice on duration and severity of
acute gouty arthritis. METHODS: Nineteen patients with acute gout were enrolled and …

Objective Information regarding effect of weather conditions on gout is sparse. We conducted
a study in the USA to examine whether gout is seasonal. Methods We reviewed synovial …

… tissue [AM Beutler et al., submitted]. The new system uses a digoxigenin-labeled, cloned
probe targeted to chlamydial 16S rRNA sequences, and control studies showed that this system …

Considerable evidence suggests that viable Chlamydia trachomatis are present in joint tissues
of patients with Reiter's syndrome/reactive arthritis (RS/ReA), but the use of antibiotics to …

The authors have shown that protein antigens, RNA, and DNA from Chlamydia trachomatis
are present in synovial tissues of patients with Reiter’s syndrome (RS). However, those …

Sirs, Hypouricemic therapy in gout can prevent or resorb tophi and prevent attacks of arthritis.
The recommended goal of therapy is serum uric acid (SUA) less than 381 mol/L, a …

: A painful and swollen prosthetic joint, accompanied by fever, is considered to be an intra-articular
infection until proven otherwise. Acute gout is one of the rare causes of arthritis in a …

Reactive arthritis (ReA) is one of the most common arthritides affecting young adults. In
most cases it follows urogenital or enteric bacterial infection, but its pathogenesis is not fully …

To evaluate simultaneous serum and synovial fluid (SF) urate levels in various inflammatory
and noninflammatory joint disorders and to correlate SF white blood cell (WBC) counts with …

A large body of evidence accumulated during the last decade has revealed diverse roles of
dysregulated water homeostasis in tumorigenesis. In particular, many tumors hypersecrete …