Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis (1268 page)

   Twenty-five percent of the relatives of patients with gout

   Asymptomatic hyperuricemia (e.g., incidental finding with no evidence of gout; clinical significance is not known but people so afflicted should be rechecked periodically for gout); the higher the level of serum uric acid, the greater the likelihood of an attack of acute gouty arthritis

   Increased destruction of nucleoproteins

   Leukemia, multiple myeloma

   Polycythemia

   Lymphoma, especially postirradiation; other disseminated neoplasms

   Cancer chemotherapy (e.g., nitrogen mustards, vincristine, mercaptopurine, prednisone)

   Hemolytic anemia

   Sickle cell anemia

   Resolving pneumonia

   Toxemia of pregnancy (serial determinations to follow therapeutic response and estimate prognosis)

   Psoriasis (one third of patients)

   Drugs (examples)