The Effect of Pretreatment with Colchicine on the Inflammatory Response to Microcrystalline Urate
Authors: STEPHEN E. MALAWISTA
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1965)

Article1 April 1965The Effect of Pretreatment with Colchicine on the Inflammatory Response to Microcrystalline UrateA Model for Gouty InflammationSTEPHEN E. MALAWISTA, M.D., J. E. SEEGMILLER, M.D.STEPHEN E. MALAWISTA, M.D., J. E. SEEGMILLER, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-62-4-648 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptNearly a century ago the British physician A. B. Garrod (1) regarded acute gouty arthritis as an inflammatory reaction to sodium urate crystals. Most investigators during the past three decades have denied such a role to sodium urate, largely because injected solutions or suspensions of sodium urate failed to produce an inflammatory reaction and because there was no consistent correlation between the degree of hyperuricemia and the development of acute gout (2-4).We have recently presented evidence to support Garrod's original hypothesis. By subcutaneous or intra-articular injection of microcrystals of monosodium urate in gouty and nongouty human volunteers, we produced...References1. GARROD AB: A Treatise on Gout and Rheumatic Gout: Rheumatoid Arthritis, 3rd ed. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1876, p. 83. Google Scholar2. DE GRACIANSKY P: Recherches sur l'Acide Urique dans la Goutte, Theses, Paris, 1938, p. 102. Google Scholar3. HENCH PS: Gout and gouty arthritis, in Modern Medical Therapy in General Practice, Vol. 3, edited by BARR, D. P., Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1940, p. 3359. Google Scholar4. 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SEEGMILLER, M.D.Affiliations: Bethesda, MarylandFrom the Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Stephen E. Malawista, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., New Haven 11, Conn. 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