The pathology is characterized by the deposition of sodium urate in the joint tissues of the big toe – the urate precipitates into crystals, which provoke the appearance of microcrystalline arthritis, with all the corresponding symptoms.
Gout is a pathological change in the body, the primary cause of which is a disorder affecting metabolic processes and manifested by the deposition of urate crystals formed from uric acid or sodium monourate.
Gout is a subtype of arthritis, the occurrence of which is associated with a failure of metabolic purine metabolism, which occurs with the formation of uric acid crystals in the joints.
In rheumatology, attacks of acute gouty arthritis, which in 70-75% of cases is localized in the first metatarsophalangeal joints of the toes, are defined as acute gout.
