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| Diagnosis standards of gout and self-checked chart |
How to find gout early? The attack of gout is caused by high level of serum uric acid in the body, so the easiest way to find gout early is to take a test of serum uric acid. Finding hyperuricemia in time plays an important role for patients to prevent, diagnose and take treatment for gout.
Now introduce you the diagnosis standards of gout or self-checked chart.
1, there are characteistic urate crystal in synovial fluid.
2, take chemical approch or polarizing microscope to find whether there is urate crystal in tophus.
3, suffering from six items of the following:
① more than once attack of acute arthritis;
② inflammatory reaction peaks in one day;
③ acute monarthritis attacks;
④ the skin on involved joints are dark red;
⑤ pain and swelling in the first plantar toe joint;
⑥ unilateral arthritis attacked and involved the first plantar toe joint;
⑦ unilateral arthritis attacked and involved tarsal joint;
⑧ there are suspicious tophus;
⑨ hyperuricemia ;
⑩ X-ray tests show asymmetric intra-articular swelling;
⑪ X-ray tests show cyst under cortex of bone without erosion;
⑫ negative in joint fluid organism cultivation during attack period of arthritis.
If you are conform with any one of 1,2,3 adding the any one of the rest, that can be diagnosed as gout.
