Gout can cause

Gout kidney damage can occur. According to statistics, gout patients 20% -25% of uric acid nephropathy, and the autopsy confirmed the kidney disease almost 100%. It includes gouty nephropathy, acute obstructive nephropathy and urinary tract stones. (1) gouty nephropathy continuing hyperuricemia, 20 percent are in clinical nephropathy performance after a number of years or more can have a glomerular and tubular damage, a small portion of the development to urine toxaemia. Urate nephropathy after the incidence of gout of joint damage, and with the duration of treatment and the closely related. Research shows that urate nephropathy and gouty arthritis unrelated to the severity of that mild arthritis patients can also nephropathy, and severe arthritis patients do not have abnormal kidney. Early mild unilateral or bilateral flank pain, swelling and subsequent mild to moderate hypertension. Urinary acid, intermittent or persistent proteinuria, generally no more than + +. Almost all renal function decline enrichment, a nocturnal enuresis, polyuria, urine relatively low density. About 5-10 years after nephropathy increase and go on to develop uremia, about 17% -25% died of renal failure. (2) urinary calculi in the urine of patients with gout acidic, thereby urinary uric acid concentrations increase, the smaller stones from the urine, but often without feeling urine sediments shows that the small brown sand; larger stones can be obstruction Hematuria ureter and renal colic caused by a urinary infection secondary to poor pyelonephritis. Huge stones can cause renal pelvis lights deformation, hydronephrosis. X uric acid stones simply not online image, when uric acid, sodium and calcium stones visible on X shadow. (3) acute obstructive nephropathy found in serum uric acid and uric acid in urine increased significantly, it is because a large number uric acid renal obstruction caused by extensive crystallization. Gout often and hypertension, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Gout in the elderly causes of death, cardiovascular factors far more than renal insufficiency. But between gout and cardiovascular disease there is no direct causal link, but with both obesity, dietary factors are related.