[Metabolic processes in children with chronic kidney failure as affected by protein-limited diets]. / Sostoianie nekotorykh obmennykh protsessov u detei s khronicheskoi pochechnoi nedostatochnost'iu pod vliianiem diet s ogranicheniem belka.

The time course of a number of characteristics of protein and mineral metabolism was studied in 55 children suffering from renal diseases in the stage of chronic renal insufficiency. Use was made of the diets in which protein was restricted to a varying degree relatively to azotemia severity. It was shown that the diet with protein restriction up to 1.5-1.0 g/kg bw has a pronounced antiazotemic action. Therefore, it is desirable to administer it to patients with moderate and remarkable azotemia. In stable and pronounced azotemia, it is advisable to administer the diet with a sharp restriction to protein (up to 0.65 g/kg bw).

[Determination of the optimal amount of protein in the diet in chronic enteritis]. / Opredelenie optimal'nogo kolichestva belka v diete bol'nykh khronicheskim énteritom.

In patients with chronic enteritis the curative effect of diets containing 135 and 160 g of protein was studied. The optimal action was found to produce a diet containing 135 g of protein. An increase of the protein proportion up to 160 g does not improve the clinical efficacy of the diet, nor does it increase the retention of nitrogen. It augments above the normal level the elimination of epinephrine with urine, which is followed by the appearance of creatinuria and an elevated oxygen deficiency in the urine. The dietary with 135 g of protein is to be continued for a lengthy period of time, for it is no sooner than after 1 1/2-2 months of the cure that there appears a tendency toward normalization of the body mass and concentration of ninhydrin-positively responding compounds in the blood serum.