clar697
Forum Guru
Topics: 190
Posts: 199
|
A 52-year-old woman presents with pain in her right knee. The knee is red, warm, and swollen. Serum uric acid is 11.4mg/dL. Joint fluid aspiration shows negatively birefringent crystals. Indomethacin therapy is started and she begins a purine-restricted diet. One week later, her 24-hour urinary uric acid excretion is 800mg/day (N=300-600mg/day). Which of the following drugs is most appropriate to decrease the serum uric acid concentration in this patient?
A) Allopurinol
B) Aspirin
C) Colchicine
D) Probenecid
E) Sulfinpyrazone
|
| DR_K
Forum Senior
Topics: 21
Posts: 84
|
A..???
___________________
good luck(Y)
|
|
| |
| | |
