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Gout attack with unusual ocular complications

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Uveitis is reported in vanishingly small numbers in gout. This case with bilateral uveitis, increased intraocular pressure and blurred disc margins may unravel strange ocular complications of the disease and arise awareness of gout while prescribing diuretics and cyclosporine in patients with uveitis and increased intraocular pressure.

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  1. First Ophthalmology Department, Ankara Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Fatma Yülek, Nurullah Çağıl, Nagehan Orhan, İnci K. Midillioğlu & Şaban Şimşek

  2. Rheumatology Department, Ankara Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Şükran Erten

  3. Gülden Sokak, No. 13/1, Kavaklıdere, Ankara, Turkey

    Fatma Yülek

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Yülek, F., Çağıl, N., Orhan, N. et al. Gout attack with unusual ocular complications. Rheumatol Int 29, 557–559 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-008-0736-z

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