FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to medicine, namely to therapeutic treatment of gout and prevention of accompanying side effects and complications in patients. method of prevention and prediction of risk of infusion responses in case of intravenous introduction of pegylated uricase to patients with gout consists in determination of uric acid content in patient's blood serum with the following indication to cessation of therapy at the level of approximately 4 mg/dl. Claimed method also makes it possible to identify risk group of patients, who receive pegylated uricase, with reduction of treatment efficiency due to formation of antibodies and higher risk of infusion response development.
EFFECT: group of inventions provides timely cessation of treatment to prevent infusion responses in patients with gout in treatment with pegylated uricase.
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