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How would you treat tophaceous gout after a course of pegloticase infusions if the patient has contraindications or intolerance to allopurinol, febuxostat, and probenecid?

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Rheumatology · National institues of Health

Difficult question. I think there are a number of issues to address.

  • What is a "course of pegloticase?"
  • What are the patient's contraindications to treatment?
  • How did intolerance to prior oral uric acid-lowering therapies manifest
  • Was pegltoicase started because of "unresponsiveness to oral ULT" an...

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Rheumatology · Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

A careful re-evaluation of the reported contraindications or intolerances to standard urate-lowering therapies (allopurinol, febuxostat, and probenecid) is essential before permanently excluding these options, as dose adjustment, desensitization, or re-challenge may occasionally be feasible.

If trul...

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Rheumatology

It helps to see that other people may consider extending the Krystexxa if total contraindication to all of the standardtherapies.

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