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Extracellular fluid volume in patients with cancer.
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PMID:  20182387     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
AIMS: Cancer patients may have extracellular fluid volume (ECV) abnormalities that potentially invalidate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measured using the slope-intercept technique. The aim was to test this concern by measuring ECV in cancer patients in comparison with noncancer patients and healthy kidney donors. METHODS: GFR was measured with Cr-EDTA and the slope-intercept technique in patients from two hospitals, the first using three samples (540 adults, including 382 with cancer, and 124 children, including 40 with cancer) and the second using four samples (256 adults, including 132 with cancer and 75 donors), scaled to body surface area (BSA) of 1.73 m and corrected using Brochner-Mortensen's equations (GFR/BSA). GFR/ECV was measured from the exponential rate constant with an appropriate one-compartment correction. ECV/BSA was calculated as the quotient, GFR/BSA:GFR/ECV. ECV was also expressed in adults in relation to lean body mass and in children as a fraction of ECV estimated from height and weight (eECV). RESULTS: In men from both centres, neither ECV/BSA nor ECV/lean body mass showed an increase in cancer patients. In women from both centres, however, they were both significantly higher in cancer patients than in noncancer patients and, in centre 2, than in donors. In children from centre 1, ECV/BSA, but not ECV/eECV, was significantly higher in cancer patients. CONCLUSION: ECV is expanded in female cancer patients but not male cancer patients. ECV may be expanded in children with cancer but the recorded difference in ECV/BSA is probably related to differences in patient size and a nonproportionate relationship between ECV and BSA.
Authors:
Hayley L R Snelling; Myron B Ciapryna; Philippe F Bowles; Daphne M Glass; Maria T Burniston; A Michael Peters
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Nuclear medicine communications     Volume:  31     ISSN:  1473-5628     ISO Abbreviation:  Nucl Med Commun     Publication Date:  2010 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-04-08     Completed Date:  2010-07-08     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8201017     Medline TA:  Nucl Med Commun     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  359-65     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Case-Control Studies
Extracellular Fluid / metabolism*
Female
Glomerular Filtration Rate
Humans
Kidney / physiology
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasms / pathology*
Reference Values
Tissue Donors
Young Adult

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