- Condition Gout Crystal arthritis, urate arthropathy Gout is caused by uric acid crystals forming inside a joint. It produces attacks of sudden, severe pain, redness and swelling — most often in the big toe — that peak wit…
- Question Can joint fluid tell you if it is gout? …Urate crystals seen under polarised light confirm gout, which blood uric acid levels alone cannot do, because uric acid can be normal during an acute attack.
- Question Does gout ever go away permanently? Yes. If uric acid is kept below 6 mg/dL with medication, the crystal deposits dissolve over months to years and attacks stop completely. This requires taking the medicin…
- Question Does gout ever go away permanently? Yes. If uric acid is kept below 6 mg/dL with medication, the crystal deposits dissolve over months to years and attacks stop completely. This requires taking the medicin…
- Condition Reactive Arthritis Reiter's syndrome Reactive arthritis is joint inflammation triggered by an infection elsewhere in the body — usually in the gut or the urinary tract — appearing one to four weeks afterwar…
- Symptom group Arthritis & Joint Pain Joint pain that lasts more than six weeks, comes with swelling, or is worse after rest than after activity is worth a specialist opinion. That pattern points towards inf…
- Treatment Joint Aspiration & Injection Procedure Joint aspiration draws a small sample of fluid from a swollen joint with a fine needle, so it can be examined under a microscope. The same needle can then deliver a cort…
- Article Exercise and weight in inflammatory arthritis: what the evidence supports Movement is treatment, not advice. What kind, how much, what to do during a flare, and why weight matters more for some conditions than others.
- Article Innovations in rheumatology and diagnostic procedures Why procedural expertise — joint aspiration, capillaroscopy, targeted biopsy — changes what a rheumatologist can tell you, and how quickly.
- Article Rheumatology blood tests: what they show and what they do not ESR, CRP, rheumatoid factor, anti-CCP and uric acid are ordered constantly and misread often. What each one is for, and why a normal result does not exclude disease.
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Consult Dr. Ashish Baweja at the Institute of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Medanta – The Medicity, Gurugram.