Abstract
Acute gout is associated with a decrease in serum uric acid (SUA) that is considered to be in response to acute inflammation but it may be a feature of gout itself. We, therefore, aimed to investigate the effect of the acute systemic inflammatory response (SIR) on SUA concentrations in subjects without gout. SUA and urinary excretion of uric acid (UA) (expressed as fractional excretion of UA; FEua%) were measured in 30 patients before and 48 h after elective knee or hip surgery. The SIR was assessed by measuring serum CRP and urine microalbumin excretion [expressed as the albumin-creatinine ratio (ACR)] before and after surgery in the same patients. The mean (s.d.) serum CRP increased following surgery [5.0 (5.5) vs 116.0 (81.2) mg/l; P < 0.0001) as did urine ACR [0.85 (1.03) vs 2.10 (2.60) mg/mmol; P = 0.004]. SUA decreased following surgery [312 (64) vs 282 (82) µmol/l; P = 0.0033] but FEua% was unchanged [6.4 (2.3) vs 7.3 (3.3)%; P = 0.1726]. The SIR is associated with a decrease in SUA concentrations in normouricaemic patients without gout. The decrease in SUA concentrations is not due to increased urinary excretion of UA. This study supports the notion that the decrease in SUA during acute gout is due to the associated SIR rather than gout per se.
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