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S Mojiminiyi

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High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of pyridinium crosslinks in serum, urine and dialysate of patients in chronic renal failure.

This study describes an isocratic reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the analysis of pyridinium crosslinks in serum, urine and dialysates obtained from patients with chronic renal failure on haemodialysis. The mean (SD) urine pyridinoline (PYD) and deoxypyridinoline (DPD) to creatinine (Cr) ratio in 19 healthy volunteers was 28.9 (6.3) and 9.1 (3.6) mumol/mol, respectively. In the 22 patients the PYD/Cr and DPD/Cr ratio was 244.6 (436.5) and 66.5 (116.8) mumol/mol, respectively. The mean serum PYD concentration in 29 patients of 268.5 (334.4) nmol/L was significantly higher than that of 5.9 (1.5) nmol/L found in normal volunteers: the mean DPD concentration was 82.9 (93.7) nmol/L in the patients but was undetectable in the serum from the normal volunteers. The concentration of crosslinks in pre-dialysis serum samples was higher than those found post-dialysis reflecting a significant removal of the crosslinks during dialysis. The assay of pyridinium crosslinks in serum, urine and dialyses fluid could potentially provide evidence of bone collagen turnover in patients in renal failure. Their measurement in serum and dialysate could be particularly useful in anuric patients.

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Pyridinium crosslinks in patients on haemodialysis and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.

BACKGROUND: The urine excretion of the pyridinium crosslinks of collagen, pyridinoline (PYD) and deoxypyridinoline (DPD) closely reflect bone resorption and their assay has been used as specific markers of mature collagen turnover. The aims of this study were to evaluate the use of these markers to predict the severity of osteodystrophy in patients with chronic renal failure. METHODS: Using an isocratic ion-paired reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography, PYD and DPD were determined in the serum, urine and dialysate of 48 patients with chronic renal failure undergoing haemodialysis (n = 28) or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (n = 20). Nineteen apparently healthy subjects were studied as controls. RESULTS: In all groups, serum and urine crosslinks excretion showed poor correlation with age. In the patients urine PYD/creatinine and DPD/creatinine were significantly (P < or = 0.03 and < or = 0.001 respectively) higher than normal; urine PYD and DPD levels were highly correlated with each other (r = 0.98) and with serum PTH (r = 0.84 and 0.83 respectively). The mean (SD) predialysis serum PYD, 269 (334) nmol/l, was significantly (P < or = 0.003) elevated compared with normal patients, 4.1 (0.6) and pre-dialysis serum DPD was 82.9 (93.7) nmol/l. DPD was below the detection limit of the assay in normal sera. In the patients postdialysis decreases in serum PYD and DPD were statistically significant (P < 0.0002 and P < 0.0007 respectively). PYD and DPD were found in the dialysate of patients on haemodialysis as well as 24-h dialysate in patients on CAPD. Dialysate PYD and DPD were highly correlated with each other (r = 0.80) and with dialysate creatinine (r = 0.76 and r = 0.62 respectively). In the patients, the mean serum, urine and dialysate PYD and DPD increased with the duration on dialysis. These findings confirm that metabolic bone disease increases in patients with duration of chronic renal failure. CONCLUSION: Estimation of serum crosslinks levels has potential as an additional tool in the diagnosis and monitoring of renal osteodystrophy. The ability to determine crosslink levels in serum and dialysate should be particularly useful in patients who are unable to produce urine.

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Measurement of glomerular filtration rate in homozygous sickle cell disease: a comparison of 51Cr-EDTA clearance, creatinine clearance, serum creatinine and beta 2 microglobulin.

Glomerular filtration rates (GFR) were measured with 51Cr-EDTA in 38 patients (aged 40-75 years) with homozygous sickle cell disease and compared with serum beta 2 microglobulin concentrations in 38 patients and with creatinine clearance in 21 patients. GFR estimated with 51Cr-EDTA was closely correlated with single serum creatinine measurements and the inverse of serum beta 2 microglobulin. Creatinine clearance was also found to be correlated, but values were, on average, 32% below those obtained by the 51Cr-EDTA method, and this difference was significant. It is concluded that measurements of beta 2 microglobulin, single serum creatinine, and creatinine clearance are valuable indicators of GFR in homozygous sickle cell disease. Measurement of beta 2 microglobulin was a useful and reliable method of estimating GFR from single plasma measurements and is therefore a useful means of screening the population.

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