Gout

A visually engaging representation of gout treatment, including common medications and uric acid crystals, with an educational theme.

Mastering Gout: Test Your Knowledge

Welcome to the Gout Quiz! This quiz is designed for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of gout, its treatments, and the medications used in managing this condition.

Test your knowledge with challenging multiple-choice questions that cover:

The mechanisms of common gout medications
Natural products used in gout treatment
Routes of administration for gout therapies

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by HealingDoctor237

Colchicine is a natural product used to prevent/treat acute attacks of gout, which sentence is not true

Does not affect uric acid serum levels

Retards inflammation from deposition of irate crystals

Reduces anti-inflammatory chemical mediators

Beneficial to combine with Uricosuric agents

Conversion of allopurinol to alloxanthine results in

Lower affinity to XO

Longer half life

Loss of activity

Higher bioavailability

Which drug treats gout through this mechanism

Xanthine mimic and competitive inhibitor of Xanthine oxidase
Inhibits synthesis of uric acid --> decrease plasma urate monoanion concentration

Febuxostat is used for treatment of gout and is preferred over allopurinol in some patients to avoid

Inhibition of xanthine oxidase

Side effects

Short duration

Extensive metabolism

Lesinurad is a treatment for gout which is combined with allopurinol to offer dual mechanism of action, which structure is lesinurab

Which is not true regarding pegloticase

Recombinant modified mammalian uricase

Indicated for patients where traditional small molecule therapy has failed

Converts urate into uric acid

Has unique mechanism of action

Which drug has this mechanism of action

inhibits URAT1
decreases reabsorption of hate & promotes its excretion

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