Dear Doctor: I was recently diagnosed with chondrocalcinosis, which is quite painful. I know it’s similar to gout, though it is due to calcium crystals rather than urea. What treatments can help with ...

Q: I was recently diagnosed with chondrocalcinosis, which is quite painful. I know it’s similar to gout, though it is due to calcium crystals rather than urea. What treatments can help with pain? I ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among the many unanswered questions about calcium pyrophosphate deposition — formerly called “pseudogout” — ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Machine learning models diagnosed gout and calcium pyrophosphate deposition with accuracies similar to trained ...

Researchers have discovered two genes, RNF144B and ENPP1, that cause calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease in Americans of European and African descent. This crystalline arthritis is caused ...

Patients diagnosed with acute calcium pyrophosphate crystal arthritis were associated with a nearly a two-fold increased risk for fracture. Patients diagnosed with acute calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) ...

Symptomatic CPPD disease (formerly known as “pseudogout”) is more common in older than younger adults and typically affects joints with previous damage. Chondrocalcinosis visible on radiographs ...

Imaging helped treat a 61-year-old man with the rare coexistence of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition and a synovial tumor in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). The case report was published in ...

In a first-of-its-kind genome-wide association study (GWAS) researchers have discovered two genes, RNF144B and ENPP1, that cause calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease in Americans of ...

This article was originally published in HCPLive® and has been lightly edited. The risk of fractures is almost doubled for individuals with acute calcium pyrophosphate crystal arthritis compared to ...

Dear Doctor: I was recently diagnosed with chondrocalcinosis, which is quite painful. I know it’s similar to gout, though it is due to calcium crystals rather than urea. What treatments can help with ...