The main sites of attacks in women with gout include the metatarsophalangeal joints, ankle joints, knee joints, olecranon, and tendon sheaths.
Gout is a heterogeneous group of diseases caused by purine metabolism disorders and/or uric acid excretion disorders, which are clinically characterized by elevated serum uric acid, recurrent acute arthritis, gouty stones and joint deformities, uric acid renal calculi, glomerular, tubular, interstitial, and vascular renal lesions.
Gout is prevalent in men, and most women appear after menopause. Female gout patients are similar to male gout patients in terms of clinical symptoms, and both occur in the metatarsophalangeal joints, ankle joints, knee joints, olecranon, tendon sheaths and other parts of the body.
Patients with gout in remission generally have no obvious symptoms, while the acute attack of gout is common joint pain, redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction of the affected joints within a few hours, the attack is self-limiting, mostly within 2 weeks of self-relief.
It is recommended that gout patients go to the orthopedics, rheumatology and immunology departments of regular hospitals in time, and follow the doctor’s instructions for standardized diagnosis and treatment.