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Allopurinol (GenRx) 100 mg uncoated tablet, 200

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What this medicine is for

Main clinical manifestations of urate/uric acid deposition. These are gouty arthritis, skin tophi and/or renal involvement through crystal deposition or stone formation. Such clinical manifestations may occur in: idiopathic gout; uric acid lithiasis; acute uric acid nephropathy; neoplastic disease and myeloproliferative disease with high cell turnover rates, in which high urate levels occur either spontaneously or after cytotoxic therapy; certain enzyme disorders which lead to overproduction of urate and involve hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase including Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, glucose-6-phosphatase including glycogen storage disease, phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase, phosphoribosylpyrophosphate aminotransferase. Management of 2,8-dihydroxyadenine (2,8-DHA) renal stones related to deficient activity of adenine phosphoribosyltransferase. Management of recurrent mixed calcium oxalate renal stones in the presence of hyperuricosuria, when fluid, dietary and similar measures have failed.

Table of characteristics

Table of characteristics

Active ingredient	allopurinol
Visual appearance	WHITE, ROUND, BICONVEX, FLAT-EDGE TABLET, SCORED AND ENGRAVED "ALL" OVER "100" ON ONE SIDE AND "APO" ON THE OTHER SIDE. Images are the copyright of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia
Dosage Form	Tablet, uncoated
Route of administration	Oral
Medicine schedule	200 tablets: Prescription Only Medicine, or Prescription Animal Remedy

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