Research shows that a common gout medication may help reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with gout.

Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) is characterized by severe rash, fever, eosinophilia, hepatitis, and renal failure. [1] It is a feared, albeit rare, complication of therapy and is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk of death from all causes was similarly lower for patients on hemodialysis prescribed either allopurinol or ...

A groundbreaking new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that medicines used to treat gout can ...

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 ...

In separate randomized controlled trials, allopurinol had no significant effect on kidney function decline. Urate-lowering therapy with allopurinol, a xanthine oxidase inhibitor, does not appear to ...

The allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) consists of severe rash, fever, eosinophilia, and hepatitis and renal failure. [1] It is a feared, albeit rare, complication of therapy and is sometimes ...

A study found that drugs used to treat gout can also cut the chances of a potentially deadly heart attack and stroke.

Elevated serum urate levels are associated with progression of chronic kidney disease. Whether urate-lowering treatment with allopurinol can attenuate the decline of the estimated glomerular ...

Allopurinol (4-hydroxypyrazolo-(3, 4-d) pyrimidine, HPP), a xanthine oxidase inhibitor, offers a new concept in the prevention of the complications of hyperuricemia. By effectively blocking the ...

The go-to drug to treat hyperuricemia and gout, allopurinol, put patients at risk for developing hypersensitivity when American College of Rheumatology (ACR) guidelines weren't followed, a large ...

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 ...