title: Plasma vitamin E levels in uremic children and adolescents.
abstract: We studied plasma vitamin E levels in children/adolescents 3-19 years of age (10.9 +/- 4.5; mean +/- 1 SD) with chronic renal failure treated conservatively, on hemodialysis, on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and after renal transplantation. In all 4 groups of patients vitamin E levels (0.66-0.90 mg/dl) were within the normal range (0.76 +/- 0.19 mg/dl). The lowest levels of vitamin E (0.59 +/- 0.1 mg/dl) were found in nonuremic patients with a good functioning renal transplant. These data do not support the notion that uremia is accompanied by vitamin E malabsorption.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Drukker
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Itai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stankiewicz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D010531:Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014511:Uremia / Q000097:blood* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000097:blood* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D014810:Vitamin E