Introduction. Allopurinol, a urate-lowering therapy used to manage gout, is commonly prescribed in patients receiving haemodialysis (HD). Urate is effectively removed by HD raising the question of whether allopurinol is needed to achieve the serum urate (SU) target of < 0.36 mmol/L. Aims. To simulate SU concentration changes for a typical gout patient with CKD […]
