Combining two medications doubles gout treatment success, study reveals
By combining two medications, researchers at Michigan Medicine optimized a therapy for people with gout, a condition that causes severe damage and disability if left untreated.
The study revealed how a second drug taken orally more than doubled the effectiveness of Pegloticase, an intravenous gout treatment used to dissolve crystalized uric acid in the joints when oral medications fail.
Gout is a challenging disease to treat because there are only a handful of oral therapies to lower uric acid. Now, we have a medication that works and gives us a better chance to help people who have been suffering from gout for decades."