High uric acid levels can lead to formation of crystals leading to inflammation. Here is how it may affect your kidney too.

Monosodium urate crystals dissolve and are eliminated from joints and soft tissues as serum uric acid levels drop below its saturating point (400 μmol/l). Time to crystal clearance relates to ...

Gout is a type of inflammatory arthritis that develops when high uric acid levels in the body form urate crystals in joints ...

Various forms of crystals can result in different bladder stones, including magnesium ammonium phosphate (struvite), calcium oxalate, ammonium urate or uric acid, cysteine, calcium phosphate ...

and an arthrocentesis several months later demonstrated urate crystals; in the second patient, CT identified gout in the wrist, and, despite negative arthrocentesis, the patient responded to gout ...

As demonstrated in a novel mouse model, the mouse version of the drug (mIL-1 Trap) both prevented and relieved ankle joint synovitis and hyperalgesia induced by monosodium urate (MSU) crystals.