title: Small bowel permeability to 51Cr-EDTA in children with recurrent abdominal pain.
abstract: Small bowel permeability was investigated in 87 children with recurrent abdominal pain by measuring the 24-h urinary excretion of orally administered 51Cr-EDTA. The mean excretion was 3.64% +/- 1.49% per 24 h. The difference between the mean urinary excretion in children with recurrent abdominal pain and control children (2.51% +/- 0.70%), was significant (p less than 0.01, two sample t-test). The increased small bowel permeability in children with recurrent abdominal pain might indicate an intestinal etiology for the patients' complaints.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Academic Hospital Maastricht, State University of Limburg, Holland.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: van der Meer
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Forget
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Heidendal
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002860:Chromium Radioisotopes; D004492:Edetic Acid / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000378:metabolism*; D010539:Permeability
chemical_list: D002860:Chromium Radioisotopes; D004492:Edetic Acid