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  • Title: Studies on renal function in healthy women with different degrees of induced potassium depletion. 2). Patterns of hypokalemic renal dysfunction.
    Author: Agnoli GC, Borgatti R, Cacciari M, Garutti C, Ikonomu E, Lenzi P, Marinelli M.
    Journal: Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper; 1993 Sep; 69(9):557-62. PubMed ID: 8155313.
    Abstract:
    In order to investigate the renal functional effects of potassium depletion (KD) we have submitted 20 healthy women to different potassium depletive treatments by dietary and pharmacological means. By changing these treatments we have obtained three KD groups with cumulative potassium deficit of 160 +/- 43 (KD1, n = 8), 198 +/- 22 (KD2, n = 6) and 214 +/- 54 mmol (KD3, n = 6). Another 20 subjects were also studied as controls in normal potassium balance (N group). In all subjects the renal function has been evaluated by clearance (cl.) technique both during induced hypotonic polyuria and subsequent moderate antidiuresis induced by low dose infusion of lysine-8-vasopressin (LVP). A renal dysfunction occurred in differences between these two groups, they have been pooled in a single KD2 + KD3 group. In this group as compared to N the following renal dysfunctions were observed during hypotonic polyuria: a) reduction in creatinine cl. (in absence of significant differences in mean arterial pressure); b) inhibition of the fractional reabsorption of chloride by diluting segments; c) depression of the diuretic response to water load. Moreover in KD the LVP was less effective in reducing the creatinine cl. while it became effective in reducing the fractional excretions of NaCl. These findings indicate that the degree of KD reached in the KD2 + KD3 group was adequate to induce a renal dysfunction similar to that occurring in conditions of chronic hypokalemia. It is probable that hypokalemia by itself along with changes of both prostaglandin and angiotensin renal systems are involved in this renal dysfunction.
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