Gout - Risk Factors

Some Diseases with Symptoms Similar to Gout

Disease

Specific Subtypes

Osteoarthritis

Infectious Arthritis

Lyme disease, bacterial arthritis, tuberculous and fungal arthritis, viral arthritis, osteomyelitis

Postinfectious or Reactive Arthritis

Reiter syndrome (a disorder characterized by arthritis and inflammation in the eye and urinary tract), rheumatic fever, inflammatory bowel disease

Pseudogout

Rheumatic Autoimmune Diseases

Rheumatoid arthritis, systemic vasculitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, Still's disease (also called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis)

Fracture or Trauma

Fibromyalgia

Other Diseases

Chronic fatigue syndrome, hepatitis C, familial Mediterranean fever, cancers, AIDS, leukemia, bunions, Whipple's disease, dermatomyositis, Behcet's disease, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, Kawasaki's disease, erythema nodosum, erythema multiforme, pyoderma gangrenosum, psoriatic arthritis