Clinical and Prognostic Signifi cance of Serum Uric Acid as a Marker Complicated Course of Gout on the Background Pathology of Digestive Tract

Abstract

At gout complicated by gastrointestinal di- sorders, there is a severe course of articular syndrome caused by a large number of affected joints and a high index of se- verity of gout. X-ray picture of the affected joints and en- doscopic findings in the gastrointestinal tract characterized by changes, the severity of which depends on the degree of hyperuricemia. At high values of uric acid (> 600 mmol/l) there are erosive changes and phenomena of inflammatory erosive changes in the gastrointestinal tract mucosa.