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Case Reports
. 1990 Nov;87(21):8326-30.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.87.21.8326.

Fructose-induced aberration of metabolism in familial gout identified by 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy

J E Seegmiller  1 , R M Dixon, G J Kemp, P W Angus, T E McAlindon, P Dieppe, B Rajagopalan, G K Radda
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Fructose-induced aberration of metabolism in familial gout identified by 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy

J E Seegmiller et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Nov.

Abstract

The hyperuricemia responsible for the development of gouty arthritis results from a wide range of environmental factors and underlying genetically determined aberrations of metabolism. 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies of children with hereditary fructose intolerance revealed a readily detectable rise in phosphomonoesters with a marked fall in inorganic phosphate in their liver in vivo and a rise in serum urate in response to very low doses of oral fructose. Parents and some family members heterozygous for this enzyme deficiency showed a similar pattern when given a substantially larger dose of fructose. Three of the nine heterozygotes thus identified also had clinical gout, suggesting the possibility of this defect being a fairly common cause of gout. In the present study this same noninvasive technology was used to identify the same spectral pattern in 2 of the 11 families studied with hereditary gout. In one family, the index patient's three brothers and his mother all showed the fructose-induced abnormality of metabolism, in agreement with the maternal inheritance of the gout in this family group. The test dose of fructose used produced a significantly larger increment in the concentration of serum urate in the patients showing the changes in 31P magnetic resonance spectra than in the other patients with familial gout or in nonaffected members, thus suggesting a simpler method for initial screening for the defect.

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