Opioid Use Linked to Low Testosterone In a Canadian study, more than half of older adults with CKD initiated allopurinol at a higher-than-recommended dose. Allopurinol doses exceeding 100 mg/d may ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Allopurinol is noninferior to febuxostat for gout when dosed appropriately as part of a treat-to-target strategy ...

ankle gout Researchers studied the comparative efficacy and safety of urate-lowering therapy – allopurinol vs febuxostat – in the treatment of gout. Allopurinol demonstrates noninferiority and ...

June 10, 2010 — Allopurinol may slow progression of renal disease in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to the results of a prospective, randomized trial published online June 10 in ...

Elevated serum uric acid levels are linked with adverse outcomes after stroke. Xanthine oxidase inhibition lowers uric acid levels and has also been found to reduce expression of proinflammatory ...

The effects of allopurinol treatment on mortality among patients with gout remain uncertain, with a new meta-analysis finding conflicting results. In a systematic review of the literature that ...

Allopurinol inhibits the generation of oxygen-derived free radicals and it has been postulated that this xanthine oxidase inhibitor might prevent post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ...

Background A 56-year-old white woman was referred to our institution with a 16-month history of severe, gouty, recurrent, acute polyarthritis involving the finger joints. She also had numerous small ...