No abstract available.
Arthritis, Gouty* ; Diagnostic Imaging*

A 33 years old female with acute myeloid leukemia was treated with induction chemotherapy of 7-3-5 protocol (Cytarabine, Daunorubicine, Etoposide). On day 15 of chemotherapy; 15 days from the first blood transfusion and 1 day from the last, she developed high-grade fever, general erythroderma, diarrhea, hyperbilirubinemia and evaluation of liver enzymes. A diagnosis of TA- GVHD was suspected. The patients had no response to any therapy and expired 5 days later. TA-GVHD is uncommon complication; there is no effective therapy and high mortality. Since TA- GVHD can be prevented by irradiating blood products with 2,500- 3,500 rads, patients at high risk should receive irradiated blood products only.
Arthritis, Gouty ; diagnosis

No abstract available.
Arthritis, Gouty* ; Humans ; Pelvic Bones*

This paper introduced some disease among osteoarthropathy in elderly such as osteoarthritis (etiology, diagnosis and treatment), osteoporosis (general, postmenopausal osteoporosis, osteoporosis type I, II) and gouty (symptoms, diagnosis and prophylactic and treatment).
Osteoarthritis ; Osteoporosis ; Arthritis, Gouty ; Aged

OBJECTIVETo observe therapeutic effects of pricking blood therapy by fire-needle with different bleeding amount on acute gouty arthritis of the foot.

METHODSSix hundred and thirty cases of acute gouty arthritis of the foot were randomly divided into group A, group B and group C according to the visiting sequence. They were treated by fire-needle respectively with 20 mL, 40 mL and 60 mL bleeding amount.

RESULTSThe effective rate in the group A, B and C was respectively 88.1%, 92.8% and 97.6%, the group C being the best, with a very significant difference between the group C and the group A (P < 0.01), and a significant difference between the group C and the group B (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONPricking blood therapy is an effective method for acute gouty arthritis of the foot and the therapeutic effect is related with the bleeding amount, the more bleeding amount, the better the therapeutic effect.

OBJECTIVETo study the analgesic mechanism of pricking blood therapy at Ashi points in the acute gouty arthritis rat.

METHODSForty rats were randomly divided into a blank group, a model group, an indomethacin group and a pricking blood group. Except the blank group, other groups were injected with sodium urate liquor into the ankle cavity to develop the acute gouty arthritis rat model, and the indomethacin group received gastric perfusion of indomethacin, and the pricking blood group were treated with pricking blood therapy at Ashi points. The peripheral pain mediums K+, NE, DA, (5-HT contents were determined.

RESULTSThe K+, DA, 5-HT contents in the pricking blood group decreased significantly as compared with the model group (P < 0.01, P < 0.05); there was no significant difference in the content of NE between the pricking blood group and the model group.

CONCLUSIONPricking blood at Ashi points can effectively inhibit release of the peripheral pain mediums K+, DA and 5-HT.

Arthritis, Gouty ; Foot ; Humans ; Tendons/surgery*

Osteochondroma, which is an osteocartilaginous exostosis, is essentially the most common primary bone tumor. These benign neoplasms are generally asymptomatic and have a relatively small potential for adverse effects. Calcaneal osteochondroma is rare, furthermore osteochondroma accompanying with gouty arthritis is very rare. Also, the subtalar joint is not a classic site of acute gout. In this report, we report the case of a patient who experienced an unusual calcaneal osteochondroma with undiagnosed gouty arthritis of the subtalar joint.
Arthritis, Gouty ; Calcaneus ; Gout ; Humans ; Osteochondroma ; Subtalar Joint

Arthritis, Gouty ; therapy ; Humans ; Integrative Medicine ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional

Since last August, 29 cases of synovial punch biopsy have been carried out with Franklin-Silverman needle which was used in liver biopsy, instead of the specialized needle for the synovium. Authors report the applicable utility of Franklin-Silverman needle for the synovial biopsy, diagnostic value of this procedure and histopathologic findings of the results. The rate of the technical success to abtain synovial tissue was about 76%. Complications after procedure have been very rarely encountered, consisting of mild transient hemarthrosis. In 17 cases, the histopathologic changes was compatible with their clinical findings. In the remainders, we experienced the failures to get synovial tiasue at all in 7 cases and to give the significant synovial changes in 5 successful specimens. Fortunately, the important diagnostic aid was achieved in 3 cases which were conformed early diagnosis of tuberculous arthritis. This needle biopsy was also thought to contribute to rule out the gouty arthritis from other hyperuricemic conditions. But the histologic changes were non specific inflammatory findings in the synovial mambrane of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, traumatic and infectious arthritis.
Arthritis ; Arthritis, Gouty ; Arthritis, Infectious ; Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Biopsy ; Biopsy, Needle ; Early Diagnosis ; Hemarthrosis ; Liver ; Needles ; Osteoarthritis ; Synovial Membrane