This category is reserved for information about agents which are used to treat gout, a disease which is caused when crystals of uric acid end up being deposited in the articular cartilage of tendons, joints, and other tissue.
Recommended Resources
This feature molecule of the month article written by a graduate student at the medical school at the Virginia Commonwealth University details colchicine, its history, and why it works the way it does. Also contains diagrams of the molecule and references.
http://www.pharmacy.vcu.edu/medchem/
Febuxostat Compared with Allopurinol
Contains the abstract as well as the full text of this New England Journal of Medicine article, which follows 762 gout patients were tested using febuxostat.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa050373
Nurse Online Notes: Antigout Agents
Provides notes about various antigout agents, adverse effects, contraindications, and nursing interventions.
http://onlinereferencenotes.blogspot.com/2009/09/antigout-agents.html
