ATC code M04
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M04AA Preparations inhibiting uric acid
Uric acid
Uric acid is a heterocyclic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen with the formula C5H4N4O3. It forms ions and salts known as urates and acid urates such as ammonium acid urate. Uric acid is created when the body breaks down purine nucleotides. High blood concentrations of uric acid...

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M04AA01 Allopurinol
Allopurinol
Allopurinol is a drug used primarily to treat hyperuricemia and its complications, including chronic gout.- Mechanism of action :...

M04AA02 Tisopurine
Tisopurine
Tisopurine is a drug used in the treatment of gout....

M04AA03 Febuxostat
Febuxostat
Febuxostat is a urate lowering drug, an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase that is indicated for use in the treatment of hyperuricemia and gout....

M04AA51 Allopurinol, combinations

M04AB Preparations increasing uric acid excretion
Uricosuric
Uricosuric medications are substances that increase the excretion of uric acid in the urine, thus reducing the concentration of uric acid in blood plasma. In general, this effect is achieved by action on the proximal tubule...

M04AB01 Probenecid
Probenecid
Probenecid is a uricosuric drug that increases uric acid excretion in the urine. It is primarily used in treating gout and hyperuricemia.Probenecid was developed as an alternative to caronamide...

M04AB02 Sulfinpyrazone
Sulfinpyrazone
Sulfinpyrazone is a uricosuric medication used to treat gout. It also sometimes is used to reduce platelet aggregation by inhibiting degranulation of platelets which reduces the release of ADP and thromboxane....

M04AB03 Benzbromarone
Benzbromarone
Benzbromarone is a uricosuric agent used in the treatment of gout, especially when allopurinol, a first-line treatment, fails or produces intolerable adverse effects...

M04AB04 Isobromindione
Isobromindione
Isobromindione is a drug used in the treatment of gout....


M04AC Preparations with no effect on uric acid metabolism

M04AC01 Colchicine
Colchicine
Colchicine is a medication used for gout. It is a toxic natural product and secondary metabolite, originally extracted from plants of the genus Colchicum...

M04AC02 Cinchophen
Cinchophen
Cinchophen is an analgesic drug that was introduced in 1910 and frequently used to treat gout...


M04AX Other antigout preparations

M04AX01 Urate oxidase
Urate oxidase
The enzyme urate oxidase , or uricase or factor-independent urate hydroxylase, catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to 5-hydroxyisourate:-Structure:...

M04AX02 Pegloticase
Pegloticase
Pegloticase is a drug for the treatment of severe, treatment-refractory, chronic gout, developed by Savient Pharmaceuticals...

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