| abstract |
[PROBLEMS] To provide highly safe therapeutic or preventive agents for hyperuricemia, more specifically uricosuric agents, which have potent uricosuric effect and do not cause grave hepatopathy. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Medicinal compositions for the treatment or prevention of hyperuricemia or diseases caused by hyperuricemia, which contain 6-hydroxybenzbromarone or salts thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable carriers; uricosuric agents, xanthine oxidase inhibitors, and inhibitors against the uptake of uric acid in kidney, which contain 6-hydroxybenz- bromarone or salts thereof; and a process for the production of 6-hydroxybenzbromarone. |