Acute gout:

• NSAIDs
• Colchicine
• Steroids

Chronic gout:

a) Drugs decreasing synthesis of uric acid

Purine – Allopurinol
Non purine- Febuxostat

b) Drugs increasing excretion of uric acid

Probenecid
Sulfinpyrazone
Benzbromarone
Lesinurad

c) Drugs increasing metabolism of uric acid

Rasburicase
Pegloticase

Q. Allopurinol prevents conversion of:    ( PGI June 2004)

A) Hypoxanthine to xanthine
B) Xanthine to hypoxanthine
C) Hypoxanthine to IMP
D) Xanthine to uric acid

Ans: A, Hypoxanthine