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asymptomatic-hyperuricemia · fitzgerald-2020-acr-gout-guideline
- Citation
- fitzgerald-2020-acr-gout-guideline
- Claim ID
- asymptomatic-hyperuricemia
- Assertion
- The ACR conditionally recommends against drug treatment for asymptomatic hyperuricemia (serum urate above 6.8 mg/dL without prior flares or tophi).
- Quote
For patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia (SU >6.8 mg/dl with no prior gout flares or subcutaneous tophi), we conditionally recommend against initiating any pharmacologic ULT (allopurinol, febuxostat, probenecid) over initiation of pharmacologic ULT.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- table: Table 1
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