Dialysate protein and amino acid losses in children receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD): Benefit of a single daily cycle with amino acid dialysis solution

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 1267-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhona M. Hanning ◽  
J. Williamson Balfe ◽  
Stanley H. Zlotkin
1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 462-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja E. Grzegorzewska ◽  
Irena Mariak ◽  
Agnieszka Dobrowolska–Zachwieja ◽  
Lech Szajdak

Objective To evaluate the influence of 1.1% amino acid dialysis solution (AADS) on parameters of nutrition in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients. Study Design Studies were performed in 8 men, using AADS for the overnight exchange. Before starting AADS, food intake, nutritional status, and laboratory indices were evaluated and compared to the respective parameters obtained after 3 and 6 months of treatment with AADS, as well as after 3 months of AADS withdrawal. With the start of AADS, doses of antacids were increased and modified during AADS administration; the modified doses were continued through 3 months after cessation of AADS. Another group of CAPD patients using standard dialysis solutions served as controls. In these patients the same parameters were evaluated four times at 3-month intervals. Results Administration of AADS resulted in: (1) 91% absorption of amino acids and improvement of serum amino acid pattern; (2) no change in nutritional intake during the treatment, but after the 3 months of AADS therapy, levels of nutrient intake were lower than those 3 months after withdrawal of AADS with correction of metabolic acidosis; (3) no change in indices of nutritional status, but 3 months after AADS discontinuation, total body weight, lean body mass, and body mass index were significantly higher than those shown after 3 months of treatment; (4) an increase in hemoglobin concentration, hematocrit, BUN, and blood H+. The examined parameters were not significantly changed in patients treated for 9 months with standard dialysis solutions exclusively. The values of nitrogen balance obtained during AADS administration and after 3 months of AADS withdrawal were significantly higher than those obtained in the respective periods in the control group. The blood pH, pCO2, and HCO3– in the last period of the study were higher in the AADS group than in the control group. Conclusion In relatively well-nourished CAPD patients, overnight AADS administration results in increased serum concentration of amino acids without changes in other nutritional parameters. The use of AADS should be associated with increased doses of antacid medication, which abolishes the metabolic effects of acidosis that develop during AADS administration and facilitates positive nitrogen balance.


1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Canepa ◽  
Francesco Perfumo ◽  
Alba Carrea ◽  
Francesca Giallongo ◽  
Enrico Verrina ◽  
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1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Sun Park ◽  
Jean Lee ◽  
Moon Sung Lee ◽  
Seung Ho Baick ◽  
Seung Duk Hwang ◽  
...  

In order to evaluate peritoneal membrane function and responsiveness of peritoneal microcirculation to vasoactive agents in long-term continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, we studied peritoneal clearances of urea (Curea) and creatinine (Ccr), protein concentrations in drained dialysate (D PC), peritoneal glucose absorption (% GA), and drained dialysate volume ( VD) before and after nitroprusside (NP) addition to dialysis solution in 17 long-term CAPD patients (mean duration of CAPD: 52 months) and the results were compared to those of 18 patients who were just trained for CAPD (mean duration: 0.6 month). There were no differences in the control (without NP) Curea, Ccr, D PC, %GA, and VD between the new and long-term CAPD patients. Curea, Ccr, and D PC increased significantly with NP in both new and long-term patients. Curea and Ccr with NP were not different between the new and long-term patients but D PC with NP was significantly lower in the long-term CAPD patients. The results of this study suggest that peritoneal solute clearances and the responsiveness of peritoneal microcirculation to NP remain unchanged after four years of CAPD, despite recurrent episodes of peritonitis.


1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Canepa ◽  
Francesco Perfumo ◽  
Alba Carrea ◽  
Maria Teresa Piccardo ◽  
Maria Rosa Ciardi ◽  
...  

The changes in plasma and dialysate amino acids (AA) in 7 continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) children after dialysis with a 1% AA solution were compared with a glucose-containing solution. During the AA exchange, the plasma levels of individual AA reached their peaks after 1 h, with their percentage increments significantly correlated (p < 0.001) with the ratio of the amount of AA in the bag to the basal plasma concentration. The plasma concentration of methionine, valine, phenylalanine, and isoleucine remained higher than the basal value at 4 h. The amount of AA absorbed was 66% after 1 h, and 86% after 4 h and 6 h, corresponding to 2574 ± 253 μmollkg body wt. During glucose-dialysis (1.36%), levels of histidine, methionine, valine, phenilal-anine, and isoleucine were significantly decreased in plasma after 1 h, and stayed low throughout the dialysis period. The loss of AA with the peritoneal effluent was 116 ± 69 μmol/kg/body wt. From this study, it seems that using an AA dialysis solution, with 1 exchange per day, might limit the daily glucose load and compensate for AA losses by supplying an extra amount of AA and by reducing the loss of other AA not contained in dialysis solutions. The AA pattern in plasma following AA-dialysis resembles that observed after a protein meal, with no signs of persistently high, nonphysiological levels.


2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 107-113
Author(s):  
Talerngsak Kanjanabuch ◽  
Monchai Siribamrungwong ◽  
Rungrote Khunprakant ◽  
Sirigul Kanjanabuch ◽  
Piyathida Jeungsmarn ◽  
...  

⋄ Background Continuous exposure of the peritoneal membrane to dialysis solutions during long-term dialysis results in mesothelial cell loss, peritoneal membrane damage, and thereby, ultrafiltration (UF) failure, a major determinant of mortality in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). Unfortunately, none of tests available today can predict long-term UF decline. Here, we propose a new tool to predict such a change. ⋄ Mesothelial cells from 8-hour overnight effluents (1.36% glucose dialysis solution) were harvested, co-stained with cytokeratin (a mesothelial marker) and TUNEL (an apoptotic marker), and were counted using flow cytometry in 48 patients recently started on CAPD. Adequacy of dialysis, UF, nutrition status, dialysate cancer antigen 125 (CA125), and a peritoneal equilibration test (3.86% glucose peritoneal dialysis solution) were simultaneously assessed and were reevaluated 1 year later. ⋄ Results The numbers of total and apoptotic mesothelial cells were 0.19 ± 0.19 million and 0.08 ± 0.12 million cells per bag, respectively. Both numbers correlated well with the levels of end dialysate–to–initial dialysate (D/D0) glucose, dialysate-to-plasma (D/P) creatinine, and sodium dipping. Notably, the counts of cells of both types in patients with diabetes or with high or high-average transport were significantly greater than the equivalent counts in nondiabetic patients or those with low or low-average transport. A cutoff of 0.06 million total mesothelial cells per bag had sensitivity of 1 and a specificity of 0.75 in predicting a further decline in D/D0 glucose and a sensitivity of 0.86 and a specificity of 0.63 to predict a further decline in UF over a 1-year period. In contrast, dialysate CA125 and other measured parameters had low predictive values. ⋄ Conclusions The greater the loss of exfoliated cells, the worse the expected decline in UF. The ability of a count of mesothelial cells to predict a future decline in UF warrants further investigation in clinical practice.


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