Gout

Pegloticase is a urate-lowering therapy that is approved for the treatment of gout. touchIMMUNOLOGY were delighted to speak with Prof. Michael Pillinger (NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA) to discuss whether urate lowering therapy impacted the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with uncontrolled gout. This information is brought to you by Touch Medical […]

The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a biomarker that is increased in patients with active gout. touchIMMUNOLOGY were delighted to speak with Prof. Michael Pillinger (NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA) to discuss the pathophysiology of gout flares and the rationale for the NLR as a biomarker for systemic inflammation in gout. This […]

Gout is a systemic and underserved disease. Many primary care physicians are treating gout as an episodic disease, providing therapies for only the acute attack.1 As a result of this, many patients with gout are languishing without even being given simple, oral, urate-lowering therapies.2 Additionally, patients who are prescribed an oral urate-lowering therapy are often underdosed and/or […]

The FDA has recently approved pegloticase injection co-administered with methotrexate in uncontrolled gout following the findings from the MIRROR randomized clinical trial presented at EULAR 2022. touchIMMUNOLOGY were delighted to speak with Dr. John K. Botson (Orthopedic Physicians Alaska, Anchorage, AK, USA) to discuss the rationale for combining methotrexate with pegloticase in the treatment of […]

It was a pleasure to meet with Professor Robert Terkeltaub (UC San Diego, San Diego, California, USA) to discuss the efficacy and safety findings from the phase 2 study of tigulixostat in gout with hyperuricemia (NCT03934099). This information is brought to you by Touch Medical Media and is not sponsored by, nor a part of, […]

In Part 2, Thomas MacDonald (University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK) discusses further how the results of the FAST study compared to another study, the CARES trial, which also investigated the cardiovascular risks associated with these two treatments.  The late-breaking abstract entitled ‘Long Term Cardiovascular Safety of Febuxostat and Allopurinol in Patients with Chronic Gout: […]

Following concerns related to the cardiovascular safety of febuxostat, the European Medicines Agency recommended a post-licensing study assessing the cardiovascular safety of febuxostat compared with allopurinol. Here we talk to Thomas MacDonald (University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK) about the results of this study and what they mean.  The late-breaking abstract entitled ‘Long Term Cardiovascular […]