title: The effect of severe trauma on urinary cyclic AMP in children of different ages.
abstract: Under routine clinical conditions the urinary excretion of cyclic AMP was studied in 97 healthy children (3 months to 16 years old) and 65 child victims of various forms of trauma and proved to be age-dependent. The mean admission cAMP urinry levels for children of all ages were increased by 44.8% and were time dependent. In 26 injured children (3 months to 9.5 years old) the excretion increased to 12.10 +/-1.29 mumol cAMP/g creatinine as compared to 8.06 +/- 2.25 mumol cAMP/g crEAtinine (50.0%; P less than 0.01) and in 38 children (9.5-16 years) it rose to 6.43 +/- 4.12 from 4.72 mumol +/- 1.10 (36.2%; P less than 0.001). In 23 victims admitted within the first two hours after trauma the cAMP levels were elevated by 31.25% in contrast to 49.2% elevation in those admitted from 2 to 24 h after trauma. In a five-day follow-up of a group of 15 surviving patients the highest excretion of cAMP was found on the first day. It was followed by a steep decline until the values plateaued on the third day at values slightly elevated above control. Compared with the fifth day, the first day excretion expressed as mumol cAMP/24 h was enhanced by 92.3% (P less than 0.01) and as a ratio to creatinine (muol/g creatine) by 52.24% (P less than 0.05. In comparison with injured adults studied previously under analogical conditions, the cAMP excretory response to trauma in children differs in higher intensity (P less than 0.01) and in the nature of the daily pattern starting with the third day. It is pointed out that the intensity of the cAMP response to pathological stimuli may be age-dependent also in other clinical conditions.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003404:Creatinine / Q000652:urine; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000652:urine*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000652:urine*
chemical_list: D003404:Creatinine; D000242:Cyclic AMP