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allopurinol
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allopurinol

Drug mainly prescribed for the treatment of chronic gout; it is an isomer of hypexanthine C5H4N4O, and acts by reducing levels of uric acid in the blood.

Discovered accidentally in the early 1960s in the search for new immunosuppressives, it has no effects on acute gout attacks, and may even provoke them in the initial stages of therapy. In the long term, it prevents the deposit of urates (salts of uric acid) in the joints and the formation of kidney stones.



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