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Prominent accumulation in hemodialysis patients of solutes normally cleared by tubular secretion.

ABSTRACT: Dialytic clearance of urea is efficient, but other small solutes normally secreted by the kidney may be cleared less efficiently. This study tested whether the high concentrations of these solutes in hemodialysis patients reflect a failure of passive diffusion methods to duplicate the efficacy of clearance by tubular secretion. We compared the plasma concentrations and clearance rates of four solutes normally cleared by tubular secretion with the plasma concentrations and clearance rates of urea and creatinine in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis and normal subjects. The predialysis concentrations (relative to normal subjects) of unbound phenylacetylglutamine (122-fold), hippurate (108-fold), indoxyl sulfate (116-fold), and p-cresol sulfate (41-fold) were much greater than the concentrations of urea (5-fold) and creatinine (13-fold). The dialytic clearance rates (relative to normal subjects) of unbound phenylacetylglutamine (0.37-fold), hippurate (0.16-fold), indoxyl sulfate (0.21-fold), and p-cresol sulfate (0.39-fold) were much lower than the rates of urea (4.2-fold) and creatinine (1.3-fold). Mathematical modeling showed that prominent accumulation of the normally secreted solutes in hemodialysis patients could be accounted for by lower dialytic clearance relative to physiologic clearance combined with the intermittency of treatment. Whether or not more efficient removal of normally secreted solutes improves outcomes in dialysis patients remains to be tested.

SUBMITTER: Sirich TL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3935591 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Prominent accumulation in hemodialysis patients of solutes normally cleared by tubular secretion.

Sirich Tammy L TL Funk Benjamin A BA Plummer Natalie S NS Hostetter Thomas H TH Meyer Timothy W TW

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20131114 3

Dialytic clearance of urea is efficient, but other small solutes normally secreted by the kidney may be cleared less efficiently. This study tested whether the high concentrations of these solutes in hemodialysis patients reflect a failure of passive diffusion methods to duplicate the efficacy of clearance by tubular secretion. We compared the plasma concentrations and clearance rates of four solutes normally cleared by tubular secretion with the plasma concentrations and clearance rates of urea ...[more]

PMID: 24231664

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Prominent accumulation in hemodialysis patients of solutes normally cleared by tubular secretion.

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Prominent accumulation in hemodialysis patients of solutes normally cleared by tubular secretion.

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