“…The cornerstone of the prevention and treatment of gout is antihyperuricemic therapy, either by uricosuric drugs or by XO inhibitors, such as allopurinol. The area of gout therapy has been reviewed in multiple recent articles (McCarthy et al, 1991;Star and Hochberg, 1993;Terkeltaub, 1993;Davis, 1999;Pal et al, 2000;Pascual, 2000;Rott and Agudelo, 2003;Terkeltaub, 2003;Bieber and Terkeltaub, 2004;Schlesinger 2004;Pea, 2005;Wortmann, 2005), as well as in various textbooks, and is not discussed herein in detail.…”