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Serum intact PTH [1-84] levels were evaluated as a potential non-invasive method for the diagnosis of renal osteodystrophy in children treated with CAPD/CCPD. Sixty-eight bone biopsy samples were obtained from 55 patients, aged 13 +/- 5 (X +/- SD) years, undergoing CAPD/CCPD for 29 +/- 13 months; osteitis fibrosa was present in 34 cases, mild lesions of secondary hyperparathyroidism in six, 15 had adynamic lesions, and 13 were classified as normal histology. Serum calcium levels were higher in patients with adynamic bone or normal bone histology than in those with secondary hyperparathyroidism, whereas serum phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase and PTH levels were greater in patients with osteitis fibrosa. The combination of a serum PTH level > 200 pg/ml and a serum calcium value < 10 mg/dl was 85% sensitive and 100% specific for identifying patients with high-turnover lesions of bone. Serum PTH values < 200 pg/ml were 100% sensitive but only 79% specific for patients with adynamic bone; specificity increased to 92%, however, using the combined criteria of a PTH level < 150 pg/ml and a serum calcium level > 10 mg/dl. Higher serum calcium levels and serum PTH values within or below the normal range characterize patients with the adynamic lesion of renal osteodystrophy. Serum PTH levels of approximately 200 pg/ml are useful for distinguishing patients with low-turnover lesions of renal osteodystrophy from those with secondary hyperparathyroidism.
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PMID:Biochemical markers of renal osteodystrophy in pediatric patients undergoing CAPD/CCPD. 812 16

During the course of chronic renal failure (CRF) in man, renal osteodystrophy (osteitis fibrosa and/or osteomalacia) gradually develops. The present study aimed to establish a similar type of CRF leading to renal osteodystrophy in rats. During progressive CRF development over 225 days after 5/6 nephrectomy, the following serum variables were measured: creatinine, immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (iPTH), 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3), a25-hydroxyvitamin D3, (25(OH)D3), alkaline phosphatase, albumin, phosphate, urea nitrogen, total calcium, and other blood electrolytes. Subsequent to sacrifice, mechanical properties of the rat femur, bone histomorphometry (osteoid and eroded surfaces) and bone contents of calcium, phosphate and hydroxyproline were also examined. Serum creatinine in rats with CRF gradually escalated by some 70%, while circulating 1,25(OH)2D3 was reduced beneath detection level. Total plasma calcium and phosphate concentrations were, however, almost unchanged indicating that PTH-induced bone remodeling due to moderate hyperparathyroidism sustained calcium homeostasis. Alkaline phosphatase levels were reduced by some 50%, which reflects chronically impeded bone formation. Bone histomorphometry assessment revealed substantial elevation of resorption with moderate accompanying fibrosis in about 70% of afflicted animals. Bone calcium, phosphate and hydroxypyrroline contents remained unaltered. However, hydroxyproline/calcium ratio was marginally reduced. These results, together with altered mechanical bending stress characteristics and diminished diaphysis cross section area, confirm development of mixed bone lesions in the uremic animals. Our results are compatible with the early development of CRF in man. The established rat model is therefore useful in elucidating the precipitation and early treatment of renal osteodystrophy in humans.
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PMID:Surgically induced uremia in rats. I: Effect on bone strength and metabolism. 814 13

We analyzed transiliac bone biopsy specimens from 30 end-stage renal failure patients, taken at the time of admission for CAPD training. Results were compared with values of iPTH, bone alkaline phosphatase, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, skeletal survey, quantitative computed tomography (QCT) and single photon absorptiometry (SPA) bone density measurements. Osteitis fibrosa was the most common histological diagnosis, present in 15 of the 30 patients (50%), with eight classified as "severe" and seven as "mild." Eight patients (27%) had adynamic bone lesion, four mixed renal osteodystrophy (13%), and two (7%) osteomalacia. The mean age of the adynamic group was higher than the osteitis fibrosa group (41 +/- 12.1 vs. 56 +/- 10.2 years; P < 0.01), and than the mixed group (39 +/- 7.5 vs. 56 +/- 10.2 years; P < 0.02). Levels of iPTH enabled discrimination between groups, but not between individual patients, and values correlated with bone alkaline phosphatase (r = 0.62; P < 0.001). Erosion of the terminal phalanges was seen on the plain X-rays of 7 of 15 patients with mild or severe OF, and in three patients with another diagnosis. The majority of patients (> 90%) had bone density measurements within the normal range. No significant correlation existed between QCT or SPA scores and any of the histomorphometric parameters, or iPTH. We conclude that iPTH is the most helpful non-invasive investigation in this group of patients. Plain X-ray of the hands is the most useful radiological investigation, but single measurements of bone density are not diagnostic.
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PMID:Correlation of bone histology with parathyroid hormone, vitamin D3, and radiology in end-stage renal disease. 826 37

Primary hyperparathyroidism is usually associated with normal or elevated serum 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D] levels. We report a 63-year-old patient with extreme hypercalcemia (ionized serum calcium, 2.51 mmol/l; normal range, 1.19-1.36), very high serum concentrations of intact immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (iPTH) (145 pmol/l; normal range, 1-6.8), radiological lesions of osteitis fibrosa cystica, only mildly impaired renal function (creatinine clearance, 69 ml/min/m2) and very low serum levels of 1,25(OH)2D (28.8 pmol/l; normal range, 72-120). Presurgery normalization of the calcemia with normal saline, salmon calcitonin and pamidronate caused an increase in 1,25(OH)2D serum concentration to 228.3 pmol/l. A negative correlation could be established between ionized calcium and 1,25(OH)2D levels during that period (r2 = 0.80, P < 0.04). While serum calcium decreased with treatment, serum iPTH also decreased to 48.6 pmol/l, suggesting some 1,25(OH)2D inhibition of parathyroid adenoma function. Serum alkaline phosphatase also rose from 309 to 390 units/l (normal range, 25-97), suggesting the beginning of resolution of her osteitis fibrosa cystica prior to surgery. Surgical removal of a parathyroid adenoma was associated with a decrease in serum calcium and iPTH levels. To our surprise, the hypocalcemia could be managed easily with 1500 mg of oral calcium carbonate daily, even if the hungry bone disease became more active with an increase in alkaline phosphatase to 486 units/l. This was explained by the very high levels of serum 1,25(OH)2D (> 200 pmol/l) which prevailed in the postsurgery period and were probably related to decreased bone resorption and increased bone formation. This case illustrates that normalizing serum calcium prior to surgery in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and osteitis fibrosa cystica can be highly beneficial.
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PMID:Inhibition of 1,25(OH)2D production by hypercalcemia in osteitis fibrosa cystica: influence on parathyroid hormone secretion and hungry bone disease. 827 76

In this study we evaluated the effect of intravenous calcitriol on parathyroid function and ionized calcium/PTH sigmoidal curve obtained during low and high calcium hemodialysis in 10 patients with osteitis fibrosa whose secondary hyperparathyroidism was refractory to conventional therapy. After four months of intravenous calcitriol, serum ionized calcium increased from 1.28 +/- 0.08 to 1.37 +/- 0.11 mmol/liter (P < 0.001), serum phosphate from 1.54 +/- 0.18 to 1.79 +/- 0.4 mmol/liter (P = NS), serum calcitriol from 16.7 +/- 9.9 to 34.3 +/- 6.4 pg/ml (P < 0.001), while alkaline phosphatase decreased from 366 +/- 340 to 226 +/- 180 IU/liter (P < 0.05), osteocalcin from 46.4 +/- 20 to 34.5 +/- 15.3 ng/ml (P < 0.05) and basal intact PTH from 1069 +/- 700 to 305 +/- 270 (P < 0.01). Basal PTH started to decrease after one month of treatment prior to the increase in the ionized calcium. Because of hypercalcemia, the dialysate calcium was decreased from 1.75 to 1.5 mmol/liter in three of five patients on hemodialysis and calcium-containing solutions were substituted by calcium-free replacement fluids in four of five patients on hemodiafiltration. Calcitriol dose at the first month of therapy was 5.6 +/- 0.8 micrograms/week, but successively it was decreased because of hypercalcemia to a final dose of 3.6 +/- 1.3 micrograms/week. After intravenous calcitriol the ionized calcium/PTH sigmoidal curve shifted to the left and downward. Maximally stimulated PTH and maximally inhibited PTH obtained during low and high calcium dialysis significantly decreased as did the ratio of basal PTH/PTHmax and the set point of calcium.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Improvement of secondary hyperparathyroidism and reduction of the set point of calcium after intravenous calcitriol. 832 Sep 5

A young girl had tibial osteotomies at age 14 for genu valgum and then had recurrent tibial cysts over a number of years. Hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia were first noted at age 21. The diagnosis of pseudohypoparathyroidism was made at age 28, when elevated plasma PTH was detected. Clinical and biochemical features, including a PTH response test and assay of RBC Gs, established the diagnosis of pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1b. Failure to suppress plasma PTH with vitamin D therapy led to an exacerbation of her cystic bone disease; there were widespread lytic lesions radiologically, most of which took up [99mTc]diphosphonate on bone scan. Microradioscopy revealed evidence of resorption of phalangeal tufts. Bone biopsy showed osteitis fibrosa cystica. During an orthopedic procedure, trabecular bone fragments were taken from her right humerus, and bone-derived cells cultured using an explant technique. The cultured cells were osteoblast-like in morphology, fully responsive to PTH, cholera toxin, forskolin, and PGE1 in vitro, and had an alkaline phosphatase and osteocalcin response to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2D3]. Following this examination of skeletal responsiveness, attempts were made to suppress the elevated plasma PTH levels and symptomatic bone disease by optimizing therapy with oral 1,25-(OH)2D3. When bone pain associated with the cystic bone disease failed to resolve, the patient underwent total parathyroidectomy, following which the bone pain gradually resolved. This is the first direct demonstration of PTH responsiveness in cultured bone cells in the syndrome of pseudohypoparathyroidism with osteitis fibrosa cystica.
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PMID:Pseudohypoparathyroidism with osteitis fibrosa cystica: direct demonstration of skeletal responsiveness to parathyroid hormone in cells cultured from bone. 842 51

The study was performed in 17 children with chronic renal failure, 7 were on hemodialysis, 6 on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, 4 were treated conservatively. In all, serum levels of alkaline phosphatase, PTH intact and osteocalcin were measured and bone biopsy was performed. We analyzed correlations between biochemical markers of bone metabolism and histomorphometric parameters. The lowest mean serum osteocalcin levels were found in children with adynamic bone disease, the highest with osteitis fibrosa. The serum osteocalcin level was significantly correlated with the dynamic parameter of bone formation rate (BFR), which suggests that this biochemical marker can be of use in discriminating between renal osteopathy with low and high bone turnover. Lack of correlation between serum osteocalcin level and mineralizing surface confirms it significance as a good marker of osteoblastic activity in bone formation but not in bone mineralization.
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PMID:[Correlation between osteocalcin and bone histomorphometry in children with chronic renal failure]. 864 39

Serum total alkaline phosphatase is the most commonly used biochemical marker of bone disease in renal patients, but alkaline phosphatase originates from different organs and sometimes lacks specificity. Bone isoenzyme measurement is considered superior to total alkaline phosphatase for the assessment of bone metabolism. We have studied the value of bone isoenzyme, determined by a new. IRMA (Tandem-R-Ostase), in haemodialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism and renal osteodystrophy. Fifty-six haemodialysis patients were studied. Intact parathyroid hormone (PTH), osteocalcin, total alkaline phosphatase and bone alkaline phosphatase were determined. A transiliac bone biopsy was performed in 20 of the 56 patients after double tetracycline labelling. There was a significant correlation between bone alkaline phosphatase and PTH (r = 0.79, P < 0.001) and between bone and total alkaline phosphatase (r = 0.84, P < 0.001) in all patients. The patients who underwent a bone biopsy showed osteitis fibrosa in 17, mixed lesion in one, adynamic bone disease in one and normal bone in one. Bone alkaline phosphatase showed a significant correlation with static and dynamic histomorphometric indices similar to that obtained with PTH and better than those of total alkaline phosphatase and osteocalcin. It is concluded that bone alkaline phosphatase (ostase) seems to be a useful non-invasive marker of bone metabolism in patients on haemodialysis with high turnover bone disease. More studies are necessary to know its value in low turnover bone disease.
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PMID:Bone alkaline phosphatase isoenzyme in renal osteodystrophy. 884 Mar 11

Large tendon rupture is a rare catastrophic occurrence in dialysis patients. Pathogenesis of this has been variably thought to be due to malnutrition, insufficient dialysis, amyloidosis, chronic acidosis, or hyperparathyroidism. We investigated contributory causes and timing of this complication in 44 dialysis patients (42 hemodialysis and two peritoneal dialysis patients). Five cases were our own; the other 39 were reported in the literature during the last two decades. Data were compared with a hospital database of 916 patients. The patients who experienced tendon ruptures had been on dialysis longer (mean duration, 7.6 years v 4.0 years; P = 0.001), were younger (mean age, 39.7 years v 48.4 years; P = 0.0001), had much higher parathyroid hormone levels (1,802 pg/mL v 202 pg/mL; P = 0.0001), had a higher phosphate level (6.8 mg/dL v 5.9 mg/dL; P = 0.001), had a slightly higher calcium level (9.2 mg/dL v 8.8 mg/dL; P = 0.038), and had a higher alkaline phosphatase level (649 IU/L v 109 IU/L; P = 0.0001) than control patients. Patients with tendon ruptures had no evidence of malnutrition (albumin 3.7 g/dL v 3.8 g/dL; P = 0.237) and had the same acidosis (bicarbonate 22.2 mEq/L v 22.0 mEq/L; P = 0.180). The time on dialysis to rupture was inversely related to the patient's age (r = 0.47, P = 0.004). Most patients had evidence of years of poorly controlled hyperparathyroidism with high and increasing levels of parathyroid hormone and alkaline phosphatase. Previous steroid use was also much more common in patients with tendon ruptures, as was radiographic evidence of osteitis fibrosa. The disease led to long hospitalization and prolonged morbidity, with mobility limitations in several patients. Spontaneous large tendon rupture in patients is secondary to hyperparathyroidism; is more common in young patients, particularly if exposed to corticosteroids; leads to long-lasting morbidity; and should be preventable by better supervision and treatment of hyperparathyroidism.
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PMID:Spontaneous tendon ruptures in patients on chronic dialysis. 918 88

A 24-year-old man with primary hyperparathyroidism and osteitis fibrosa cystica developed acute hypocalcaemia. Spontaneous healing of his bone disease was confirmed radiographically and by correction of the serum alkaline phosphatase. Hypercalcaemia associated with a raised serum parathyroid hormone recurred 90 weeks after the initial presentation. During the fourth neck exploration a parathyroid adenoma was removed, resulting in resolution of his condition. Haemorrhagic infarction of an adenoma was the most likely cause of the acute hypocalcaemic episode.
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PMID:Spontaneous healing of osteitis fibrosa cystica in primary hyperparathyroidism. 901 72


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