These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: The influence of UV irradiation on vitamin D metabolism in children with chronic renal diseases.
    Author: Lemke E.
    Journal: Int Urol Nephrol; 1993; 25(6):595-601. PubMed ID: 8175280.
    Abstract:
    The aim of this study was to find out whether an improvement of vitamin D metabolism and its metabolites and a decrease of parathormones can be reached through a diet and UV irradiation. Forty-eight children with kidney insufficiency were divided into four groups: Group 1--diet according to Bergström with EAA and cetoanalogue supplementation plus UV therapy; Group 2--diet plus EAA and cetoanalogue supplementation without UV therapy; Group 3--without diet and supplementation of EAA and ceto but with UV therapy; Group 4--without any diet and without UV therapy. The average levels of kidney insufficiency in all children at the stage of a manifest kidney insufficiency were not significantly different. As a result it became obvious that children exposed to UV irradiation with or without a diet had better post-treatment values and that children with kidney insufficiency reacted to UV therapy plus diet best of all. One can obtain the same results also by oral vitamin D therapy, although we have to point out the danger of calcinosis and stone formation which the author could frequently demonstrate, but never after UV treatment.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]