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Thirty patients suffering from chronic kidney disease were examined for urinary, fecal and total plasma porphyrins. Twenty patients had nitrogen retention whereas the remaining ten patients displayed normal values. Urinary coproporphyrin excretion and total plasma porphyrin levels were comparatively less pronounced in patients with nitrogen retention. Such changes in porphyrin metabolism could be explained by a diminished capacity for kidney excretion. It is concluded that the total amount of porphyrins synthesized in the body is decreased as a result of nitrogen retention. ## Gesamt-Plasmaporphyrine bei Nierenkrankheiten Zusammenfassung: Die Harn-, Kot-und Plasmaporphyrine wurden bei 30 chronisch Nierenkranken (10 ohne und 20 mit Stickstoffretention) untersucht. Bei Kranken mit Stickstoffretention waren die Koproporphyrinausscheidung im Harn und die

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Author
E. D. Ivanov; Elka Drenska
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG; Walter de Gruyter GmbH (ISSN 1434-6621)
Published
1976
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)

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