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  • Title: Ammonium chloride metabolic acidosis and the activity of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in children.
    Author: Györke ZS, Sulyok E, Guignard JP.
    Journal: Eur J Pediatr; 1991 Jun; 150(8):547-9. PubMed ID: 1954957.
    Abstract:
    The present study was undertaken to assess the effects of acute metabolic acidosis on the activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in 12 children with a mean age of 8.9 years who underwent NH4Cl loading test. Ammonium chloride was given in a dose of 0.15 g/kg per day for 3 consecutive days to evaluate renal acidification. Prior to and following NH4Cl administration blood acid-base parameters, plasma and urine electrolytes, creatinine and aldosterone concentrations as well as plasma renin activity (PRA), urine flow rate and net H+ excretion were measured. Ammonium chloride administration significantly depressed blood pH (P less than 0.05), bicarbonate (P less than 0.01) and base excess (P less than 0.01) and resulted in a slight, but significant elevation of plasma potassium concentration (P less than 0.05). Furthermore, NH4Cl ingestion induced a marked increase in urine flow rate (P less than 0.01) and urinary sodium, potassium and chloride excretion (P less than 0.01). In response to NH4Cl metabolic acidosis, PRA doubled (4.72 +/- 1.18 vs 8.13 +/- 1.02 ng/ml per hour, P less than or equal to 0.05) and there was a nearly four-fold increase in plasma aldosterone level (0.49 +/- 0.12 vs 1.52 +/- 0.24 ng/ml, P less than 0.01) and in urinary aldosterone excretion (19.2 +/- 4.3 vs 71.8 +/- 13.8 micrograms/day, P less than 0.01). The elevated aldosterone production observed in this study is assumed to be mediated by the combined effect of sodium and water diuresis-related increased PRA, hyperkalaemia and the direct stimulation of adrenal steroidogenesis by metabolic acidosis.
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