dundee.ac.uk Allopurinol has been used for the treatment of gout for the last 40 years, but it is only in the last 15 years that there has been a gathering realisation of its potential benefits in ...

Objective To assess the effect of allopurinol use on the risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF) in the elderly. Methods We used the 5% random Medicare Claims data from 2006 to 2012 to examine the ...

Objective To assess the effect of allopurinol dose/duration on the risk of renal failure in the elderly with allopurinol use. Methods We used the 5% random Medicare claims data from 2006 to 2012.

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This mechanism may explain why patients treated with a combination of thiopurine and allopurinol have dramatically decreased methylated metabolites.

Aim Report on the use of allopurinol in conjuction to azathioprine (Low Dose Azathioprine Allopurinol- LDAA) in patients who developed thiopurine induced liver injury. Methods This is a retrospective ...

Conclusion In patients with chronic stable angina, allopurinol (600 mg/day) improves TET and Tsym and to ischaemia during exercise. These results support the use of allopurinol as a novel ...

Results of a prospective, randomized, controlled trial indicate that allopurinol lowers serum uric acid levels and reduces the rate of renal degeneration in patients with mild to moderate chronic ...

“Allopurinol is most common drug used to lower serum urate in people with gout; [it] is well-tolerated and usually very effective, if used in the therapeutic doses [up] to 800 mg/day. However, in some ...

Attacks may be polyarticular and can intensify quickly. Colchicine in combination with probenecid or allopurinol is frequently used to treat gouty flares. [22] For acute attacks refractory to or ...

but Stamp argued that the allopurinol dose used in the study — 300 mg/d — “may not be enough for many patients who have gout. Dose-restricting allopurinol is one way to demonstrate that an ...