Patients with advanced gout may experience gout stones, joint deformities, hematuria, and proteinuria.
Gout can be caused by the deposition of urate in the joints, and the disease belongs to the category of metabolic rheumatism. The common symptoms of gout attacks are joint pain, fever and joint swelling, long-term patients without standardized treatment can also be due to the accumulation of urate adhesion and the formation of gout stones, gout stones in the joints of large amounts of deposition of joint bone destruction, resulting in joint deformity, which is more common in the feet and hands.
As the disease progresses, gout can involve blood vessels and kidneys and lead to gouty nephropathy, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease and other complications, gouty nephropathy patients can appear hematuria, proteinuria, nocturia, edema and other symptoms, and patients with coronary atherosclerotic heart disease can be shortness of breath, chest tightness and other symptoms, and in serious cases, can be life-threatening.
Gout patients can go to the rheumatology and immunology department of regular hospitals and other related departments for detailed consultation.