Lessons and pitfalls from the 2020 Gout Clinical Practice Guideline presented in Atlanta at the ACR 2019.

Gout is the most common type of arthritis and is evoked by arousal of the inflammasome in the presence of urate crystals superponed on a dysmetabolism with urate accumulation. Gout can be cured in most patients but still treatment is suboptimal in the majority of patients. Quality guidelines for management from experts such as from American College of Rheumatology aim to give guidance to US physicians and their own rheumatologists but have a value worldwide. We should know about the updates that were recently made publicly, with their strong and conditional recommendations, as we may learn and improve from their updated guideline.