ABSTRACT
This group of conditions is characterized by physical and chemical damage from crystal deposition which causes inflammatory degenerative change in articular cartilage.
Gout Gout is not a single disease but is a group of disorders of purine metabolism in which crystals of urate from hyperuricaemic body fluids cause an inflammatory arthritis, tenosynovitis and bursitis. It is predominantly a disease of males (20:1) and is rarely seen in pre-menopausal females.
