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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 33(2): 205-10, Feb. 2000.
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-252295

ABSTRACT

Hypocitraturia (HCit) is one of the most remarkable features of renal tubular acidosis, but an acidification defect is not seen in the majority of hypocitraturic patients, whose disease is denoted idiopathic hypocitraturia. In order to assess the integrity of urinary acidification mechanisms in hypocitraturic idiopathic calcium stone formers, we studied two groups of patients, hypocitraturic (HCit, N = 21, 39.5 + or - 11.5 years, 11 females and 10 males) and normocitraturic (NCit, N = 23, 40.2 + or - 11.7 years, 16 females and 7 males) subjects, during a short ammonium chloride loading test lasting 8 h. During the baseline period HCit patients showed significantly higher levels of titratable acid (TA). After the administration of ammonium chloride, mean urinary pH (3rd to 8th hour) and TA and ammonium excretion did not differ significantly between groups. Conversely, during the first hour mean urinary pH was lower and TA and ammonium excretion was higher in HCit. The enhanced TA excretion by HCit during the baseline period and during the first hour suggests that the phosphate buffer mechanism is activated. The earlier response in ammonium excretion by HCit further supports other evidence that acidification mechanisms react promptly. The present results suggest that in the course of lithiasic disease, hypocitraturia coexists with subtle changes in the excretion of hydrogen ions in basal situations


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Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Acidosis, Renal Tubular/metabolism , Citric Acid/urine , Urinary Calculi/urine , Acidosis, Renal Tubular/etiology , Acidosis, Renal Tubular/physiopathology , Ammonium Chloride/pharmacokinetics , Ammonium Chloride/urine , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Lithiasis/complications , Organophosphates/urine , Time Factors
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Medicina (B.Aires) ; 52(3): 220-4, mayo-jun. 1992. tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-134617

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In normal subjects fed western-mixed diets, in the fasting state, 39.6% of the variance of calciuria is accounted for by net acid excretion and 4% by sulfaturia. In the postprandial period, net acid accounts for 6.9% and sulfaturia for 11.8% of the variance of calciuria. As expected, after a load of ammonium chloride, net acid excretion exceeded the importance of sulfaturia (36.2% vs. 8.4%) and the opposite was observed after DL-methionine load (1.5% and 46.2%). A group of normal subjects fed vegetarian diets was also investigated. The excretion of the three variables measured were significantly reduced in this group when compared with that of the former group. In the fasting state the variance of calciuria was accounted mainly by net acid excretion (85.7%). In the postprandial state net acid (4.9%) and sulfate (2.2%) had much less importance as determinants of calciuria. It is concluded that in spite of their metabolic relationship, net acid and sulfate excretions are independent determinants of calciuria. The relative importance of each variable changes as a function of metabolic circumstances


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Humans , Male , Female , Acids/urine , Calcium/urine , Diet , Sulfates/urine , Adult , Ammonium Chloride/urine , Calcium, Dietary/pharmacokinetics , Diet, Vegetarian , Dietary Proteins/administration & dosage , Eating , Fasting , Middle Aged , Methionine/urine , Reference Values
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