title: Functional renal involvement in normotensive patients with progressive systemic sclerosis: impaired sodium excretion during isotonic saline infusion.
abstract: An intravenous infusion of 2,000 ml isotonic saline was performed in 8 normotensive, normoreninemic patients with progressive systemic sclerosis. None of them had clinical evidence of renal disease. Total and proximal fractional excretion of sodium was reduced when compared with that of 8 normal subjects. No correlation was found with para-aminohippurate (PAH) clearance values. Two years after this study was done, 4 patients developed arterial hypertension; interestingly, plasma renin activity remained within the normal range. Reduced sodium excretion is suggested as having a pathogenetic role in the hypertension of progressive systemic sclerosis.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology; D007552:Isotonic Solutions; D007668:Kidney / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012083:Renin / Q000097:blood; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012964:Sodium / Q000652:urine*; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000008:administration & dosage
chemical_list: D007552:Isotonic Solutions; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D012964:Sodium; D012083:Renin