Erschienen in:
01.11.2003 | Letter to the Editor
Spinach attack: a funny turn in gouty arthritis
verfasst von:
Levent Özçakar, Ali Kemal Oğuz
Erschienen in:
Rheumatology International
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Ausgabe 6/2003
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Excerpt
Dietary modification is a prime ingredient of successful management of gout. Simple dietary guidelines indisputably yield encouraging clinical outcome and are also quite satisfactory for patients. Meat is, by far, most famous for provoking arthritis attacks in gout; however, there is a roster of foods with high purine content that should also be consumed cautiously. Here we describe a patient who experienced an arthritis attack shortly after eating spinach, a less discomforting episode but, to the best of our knowledge, not yet mentioned in the literature. …