Picture Quiz: Puzzle: Gout
This puzzle is about gout. From the clues below, work
out the words in the maze. The last letter of each word is the first letter
of the following word. However, the order of the clues does not relect the
order of the words in the maze. We have given you two letters to start you
off.
Clues
- Monosodium urate
deposits found in avascular areas, eg, pinna, tendons, joints and eyes
– not bean curd! (5)
- Part of the body first
affected in 50% of patients (3,3)
- Type of drug, used in
heart failure, that can precipitate acute attacks (8)
- Gout occurs when too
much urate is made, or its renal… is impaired (9)
- Drug, other than
NSAIDs, used for treating an acute attack (10)
- Excess consumption of
this chemical, in one form, was said to precipitate an attack (7)
- General advice given
to patients to prevent acute attacks, but which may cause them too! (4,6)
- Analysed under
polarised light microscopy to determine the presence of needle-shaped,
negatively birefringent urate crystals. May be taken from the knee (8,5)
- One NSAID used to
treat acute episodes (12)
- A serious renal
complication of chronic gout (15)
Now check out the answers to this month's quiz
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studentBMJ 2005;13:221-264 June ISSN 0966-6494
