Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor and comorbidity in gout.

Metabolic disorders are a public health issue because of the complications they cause, but they are also a major risk factor for the onset of gout.

Analysis of the Economic-Financial Efficiency of Gout Treatment in Elderly Patients with Comorbidities in the Republic of Moldova.

Introduction: The costs of treating an elderly patient with gout are largely related to the treatment of concomitant pathological conditions and complications. Determining the costs of treating the disease is made by clinical and economic analysis, the task of which is to calculate the "cost of the illness".

Material And Methods: A descriptive, selective study of 237 patients with gout.

MUSCULOSKELETAL IMPAIRMENT IN PRYMARY HYPOTHYROIDISM.

This article contains bibliographical data concerning the rheumatic clinical manifestations in hypothyroidism: polyarthralgias, lack of recent skill of fine movements of the hands, carpal tunnel syndrome or tarsal, degenerative arthropathy or acute type (gout, chondrocalcinosis), adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder syndrome), generalized muscular stiffness, hypothyroid myopathy, secondary osteoarthritis, Dupuytren's contracture, "trigger finger" (also called as stenosing tenosynovitis or trigger thumb) etc. and data on the short history, epidemiology, of these disorders. Review include 60 bibliographical sources.

[HLA B 27 uveitis in ankylosing spondylitis and reactive arthritis].

Clinical features of uveitis HLA B27 in patients with uveitis associated with ankylosing spondylitis and reactive arthritis. The study was made on 64 patients with uveitis treated in the municipal hospital between 2005-2008. The diagnosis was established after a complex ophthalmologic investigation.