title: [Procollagen type I C-propeptide in kidney transplant recipients].
abstract: The excessive production of parathormone may persist or return after renal transplantation, so that latent hyperparathyroidism in time may lead to loss of bone mass and of the new kidney; a precocious diagnosis of this disease represents the best preventive measure. On a group of 50 successfully undergone kidney transplant patients (group A: 38 immunosuppression therapy with corticosteroids, azathioprine and cyclosporine A patients; group B: 12 immunosuppression therapy with azathioprine and ciclosporine A patients) we have evaluated also the most common markers of hyperparathyroidism, C-propeptide of procollagen of type I (PICP), that is a product of procollagen degradation and it represents in the serum a direct measure of osteoblastic bone activity. Our results showed alkaline phosphate, osteocalcin and PICP increase, which are index of osteoblastic activity and urinary collagen cross-links pyridinoline and deoxypyridinoline increase which are index of bone osteoclastic activity. The survey revealed a linear significant correlation only between PICP and pyridinoline and cross link deoxypyridinoline (p < 0.05). In this group of patients the only PICP could not have a diagnostic meaning. Owing to the particularly bone metabolism of our patients, that probably feel the effects of hyperparathyroidism of the pre-transplant period, PICP turns out insufficient to study the persistent or returned hyperparathyroidism.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Patologia Chirurgica R, Università degli Studi, Palermo.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vaccaro
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gioviale
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Picone
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Buscemi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romano
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016723:Bone Remodeling; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000097:blood*; D011347:Procollagen / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011347:Procollagen; C042813:procollagen type I carboxy terminal peptide
vernacular_title: Il C-propeptide del procollagene di tipo I nei pazienti con trapianto renale.