High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sodium aurothiomalate is an organogold compound with the chemical formula C4H4AuNaO4S and is used for its antirheumatic effects to treat rheumatoid arthritis. In the United Kingdom only the intramuscular injection drug Myocrisin and the orally taken Auranofin are used medically. Gold salts describe ionic chemical compounds of gold. The term, which is a misnomer, has evolved into a synonym for the gold compounds used in medicine. The application of gold compounds to medicine is called "chrysotherapy" and "aurotherapy." The first reports of research in this area appeared in 1935, primarily to reduce inflammation and to slow disease progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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