[Clinical manifestations of gout]

Abstract

Gout is a chronic disease, clearly progressing in incidence and prevalence, which threaten to pose a real problem of public health in the near future. Gout is to be understood for as the progression in a continuum of a single and same disease: hyperuricemia. This awareness allows to better apprehend the disease's evolution, to understand clinical manifestations and to plan treatment in a rational way.