title: The urine urokinase concentration in end stage renal disease with acquired renal cyst.
abstract: To see whether there was any difference in the urine urokinase concentration between acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD) group and control (non cyst) group in end stage renal disease patients (ESRD), we evaluated fifty ESRD patients who had been maintained on chronic hemodialysis for various period. The urine urokinase concentration was higher in the ACKD group (17.5 +/- 14.7 unit/ml, range 13.5-47.0 unit/ml, n = 9) than the control group (4.1 +/- 3.4 unit/ml, range 0.5-12.0 unit/ml, n = 36) (p less than 0.001), and polycyst group (2.6 +/- 1.8 unit/ml, range 1.0-5.1 unit/ml, n = 5) (p less than 0.01). But there was no difference between the control group and polycyst group. In the control group and the ACKD group, there was a direct relation between the dialysis duration and the urokinase concentration and the longer the dialysis duration, the higher the urine urokinase concentration (r squared = 0.424, p = 0.0001). The hemodialysis duration was longer in the ACKD group (42 +/- 17.0 months) than the control group (20.0 +/- 12.5 months) (p less than 0.005). These findings suggest that urokinase may be responsible for cystogenic degeneration in ESRD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchuhyang University Hospital, Chunan, Korea.
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Ki
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Chung
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000201:enzymology / Q000209:etiology / Q000652:urine*; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D007690:Polycystic Kidney Diseases / Q000201:enzymology / Q000209:etiology / Q000652:urine; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / Q000652:urine*
chemical_list: D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator