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F J Hering

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Calcium oxalate stone disease: effects and side effects of cellulose phosphate and succinate in long-term treatment of absorptive hypercalciuria or hyperoxaluria.

Absorptive hypercalciuria was treated in 27 patients with cellulose phosphate. In all patients urinary calcium decreased and stone formation virtually ceased. The most striking side effect was an excessive hyperoxaluria, necessitating withdrawal of the drug in 8 patients. Succinate decreased the hyperoxaluria in 14 of 19 patients. All patients had mild hypercalciuria and hypermagnesiuria. This study was done to determine the therapeutic value and the side effects in the treatment of absorptive hypercalciuria with sodium cellulose phosphate and of hyperoxaluria with succinate.

Adult

Ureteral calculus: experience with 521 stone extractions.

Few urologic problems require the consideration of so many factors as does an obstructing calculus in the ureter. The questions that arise in each case are whether an operation should be done for immediate relief of the obstruction or whether manipulation should be done, possibly subjecting the patient to a period of disability, painful attacks of colic and febrile reactions.

Catheterization

[Plasma and urinary CEA-assay in patients with urological tumours (author's transl)].

Plasma and urinary carcino-embryonic antigen (CEA) assays were performed in 151 patients with urological tumours. CEA measurement is unreliable in renal cell carcinoma and carcinoma of the prostate. However, CEA-assays permit the diagnosis of bladder tumours. The test is particularly useful in the followup and therapeutic control of patients with carcinoma of the bladder.

Adenocarcinoma

[New aspects in the treatment of oxalate lithiasis (author's transl)].

The causes of hypercalciuria and simple diagnostic criteria for the various forms of hypercalciuria are outlined. Indications, effectiveness, limitations, and side effects of cellulose phosphate are described. Emphasis is placed on the biochemical pathogenesis and classification of hyperoxaluria. The problems of measuring and controlling oxalate excretion in patients with hyperoxaluria and calcium oxalate stones are discussed. Succinimide offers a partly successful approach to the reduction of endogenous oxalate synthesis.

Calcium

[Age-dependent biochemical studies on the extrarenal effect of furosemid (author's transl)].

The present study investigated the activities of lysosomal enzymes of the liver after administration of Furosemid. 10 weeks and 1-year old male albino rats were treated with 40 mg Furosemid for 4 subsequent days. According to the method devised by de Duve a sediment rich in lysosomes was produced by fractionated centrifugation and subsequently the enzyme activity of beta-glucuronidase, beta-acetylglucosaminidase, cathepsin D and a collagenolytic enzyme was measured in the sediment as well as in the corresponding lysosomal supernatant. The protein content served as a reference for the enzyme activities. In addition, we investigated the activities of cytoplasmic enzymes such as GOT, GPT, gamma-GT and the alkaline phosphatase. The enzyme activity changes were age-dependent. With Furosemid treatment the activities of beta-glucuronidase and cathepsin D increased in the lysosomal supernatant and the lysosomal sediment of the 1-year old rats, whereas the activities of the collagenolytic enzyme increased in the lysosomal sediment of the same group. In the lysosomal sediment of the 10-weeks old rats a decrease of beta-glucuronidase, beta-acetylglucosaminidase and cathepsin D was observed. These results are discussed in the light of reports from the literature.

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