(1) On the other hand, severe talagia was rarely found in rheumatoid arthritis, and no case was related to the presence of tophi or xanthomas of the Achilles tendon.
(2) Fortunately, the acute attacks are readily treated with anti-inflammatory drugs, and destructive changes due to tophi may be prevented or reversed, at least in part, by the intelligent control of serum urate levels.
(3) Roentgenographic findings, in addition to features typical of OA, included soft tissue densities (tophi), with or without calcification, large intraarticular erosions, characteristic nonmarginal cortical erosions, and periarticular osteolysis.
(4) This network is different in crystals from tophi, suggesting crystal formation about an electron lucent nidal matrix.
(5) Immunoglobulin and fibrin were found on MSU aspirated from large tophi.
(6) In the case of two gouty groups divided according to the existence of gouty heredity, tophi or renal impairment, adenosine deaminase and inosine phosphorylase activity in the two groups were not significantly different.
(7) The duration of disease before tophi appeared was shorter.
(8) Acute attacks in saturnine gout are frequently polyarticular and tophi rarely develop.
(9) Defects of bone induced by tophi and new formations can be identified with certainly.
(10) Especially in the area of the hand surgical extirpation of the tophi can be gratifying, though it may be a difficult task.
(11) We conclude that: (1) the fractures occurred through heavy crystal deposits; (2) ununited fractures and intra-osseous and subperiosteal tophi contributed to the pain; (3) spontaneous fractures are of poor prognostic significance.
(12) These tophi had immobilized the patient for months and it had not been possible to control them by conservative therapy.
(13) It has been demonstrated in this 58-year old woman that osteoarthrosis OA coexisted in a hip with microscopic gouty tophi.
(14) Medical therapy can be effectively supported by surgical removal of the tophi.
(15) Subperiosteal and intra-osseous tophi of calcium oxalate were seen.
(16) Her presentation with acutely inflamed tophi without any history of joint involvement, only 3 months after starting treatment, was highly unusual.
(17) Previous reports indicate that gouty tophi of the cardiac valves are rare: of the nine cases reported, eight occurred in the mitral valve.
(18) It is possible to avoid gouty arthritis, tophi and nephrolithiasis with a consequent diet and medical treatment.
(19) The clinical picture presents an acute phase with a gouty abscess linked to the swollen joints caused by sodium urate crystals and a chronic phase characterised by gouty tophi and chronic gouty arthropathy.
(20) Cyclosporine, with its attendant hypertension and nephrotoxicity, appears to be the major risk factor for hyperuricemia in this setting, leading to the accelerated development of tophi and chronic polyarthritis.
Trophi
Definition:
(n. pl.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(2) Already this season they have won three trophies and could yet make it five out of six if they win the Champions League and Copa del Rey.
(3) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
(4) Moyes is relishing the visit by Chelsea and said: "I came for this sort of level but I came to win trophies and if you are going to win them then you do need to beat teams like Chelsea and Manchester City because that's the way our league is.
(5) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
(6) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(7) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
(8) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
(9) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(10) The overthrow of the Greek government so that (German finance minister Wolfgang) Schaüble could claim Tsipras’s head as a trophy.
(11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
(12) England will still return home having retained, for what it is worth, the Wisden Trophy.
(13) Chelsea have an unorthodox way of gathering trophies but it is a successful one – and they will cherish this as one of their great nights.
(14) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(15) The modern era has seen numerous format changes for the trophy.
(16) The winner in the 94th minute, from Jonathan Woodgate, came through a mistake by the Chelsea goalkeeper, Petr Cech, but the result itself was no accident and Tottenham earned their first trophy in nine years.
(17) This wasn’t about him; this first part of the event, before he headed out to the pitch where the trophies and the fans awaited him, was not much of a goodbye.
(18) They won the Supporters’ Shield in 2013, the club’s biggest trophy to date.
(19) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(20) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."