These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Uric acid levels of the serum of healthy persons and patients with various rheumatic diseases].
    Author: Bośmanský K, Ondrasík M.
    Journal: Ter Arkh; 1987; 59(4):22-5. PubMed ID: 3495897.
    Abstract:
    Serum uric acid levels were investigated in a series of 1715 subjects. Of them 596 were patients with inflammatory rheumatic disorders, 162 gout patients, 236 with osteoarthrosis, 79 with systemic lupus erythematosus or diffuse scleroderma and 642 healthy subjects. On analyzing the results, very high uricemia values were found in the gout patients. Increased uricemia values were observed is patients with psoriatic arthritis and diffuse connective tissue disorders (systemic lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma). Hyperuricemia was found in psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and in nosological entities classified under diffuse connective tissue disorders in 5.6 to 10.1% of patients. In the healthy examinees hyperuricemia was recorded in 3.8% of the cases.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]