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  • Title: Is dialysis membrane type responsible for increased circulating adhesion molecules during chronic hemodialysis?
    Author: Mrowka C, Heintz B, Sieberth HG.
    Journal: Clin Nephrol; 1999 Nov; 52(5):312-21. PubMed ID: 10584995.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic renal failure under maintenance hemodialysis (HD) present with numerous adverse effects including immunologic alterations. Serious abnormalities of neutrophil function have been reported to be associated with disturbed cell adhesiveness. These adhesion processes are mediated by cytokines and different adhesion molecules. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In this study, serum concentrations of the intercellular adhesion molecule ICAM-1, vascular cell adhesion molecule VCAM-1 and endothelial leukocyte adhesion molecule E-selectin were investigated during employment of different dialysis membranes (cuprophane: n = 23, cellulose: 8, polysulfone: 26, acrylonitrile: 7). These adhesion parameters from 64 patients before and after a hemodialysis session were investigated parallel to the serum levels of circulating cytokines and their inhibitors. RESULTS: Circulating ICAM-1 levels were not elevated in low-flux membranes and most of the high-flux HD membranes, except for one high-flux polysulfone membrane. cVCAM-1 levels were significantly elevated both in low- and high-flux dialysis membranes, whereas cE-selectin was not increased. cICAM-1 levels were not different before and after hemodialysis in the entire study group. In contrast, cVCAM-1 and cE-selectin levels increased significantly during HD in the entire study group (both p < 0.001). Serum levels did not correlate with the duration of end-stage renal failure and hemodialysis. Levels of circulating cytokine antagonists/inhibitors (Il-lra, Il-2R, TNFsRp55/75) were significantly increased in all patients before and after HD, whereas the serum concentrations of the corresponding circulating cytokines (I1-1beta, Il-1, TNF-alpha) were within normal ranges. CONCLUSION: Increased levels of cVCAM-1 which suggest an important role for immunological alterations in HD and cytokine-independent changes during HD sessions in all membranes without alterations of cICAM-1 in most membranes and unchanged cE-selectin indicate that processes such as uremia are responsible for these effects rather than membrane characteristics. The level of circulating adhesion molecules does not serve as an appropriate marker of membrane biocompatibility.
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