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A total of 48 patients with calculous pyelonephritis were examined before and after surgery. A study was made of the fibrinolytic system (according to the status of XIIa kallikrein-dependent fibrinolysis, lysis of the plasma clots and euglobulin lysis) and of the kallikrein-kinin system of the plasma (according to kallikrein activity, kininogen content, kininase activity, spontaneous esterase activity and prekallikrein content). The patients with calculos pyelonephritis demonstrated KKS activation and fibrinolysis reduction related to both the lowering of the activator levels and elevation of antiplasmin levels, which in turn created the risk of thrombophilia in this group of patients.
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PMID:[Changes in the indicators of the fibrinolytic and kallikrein-kinin systems in patients with calculous pyelonephritis]. 656 90

Ion transport is essential for maintenance of transmembranous and transcellular electric potential, fluid transport and cellular volume. Disturbance of ion transport has been associated with cellular dysfunction, intra and extracellular edema and abnormalities of epithelial surface liquid volume. There is increasing evidence that conditions characterized by an intense local or systemic inflammatory response are associated with abnormal ion transport. This abnormal ion transport has been involved in the pathogenesis of conditions like hypovolemia due to fluid losses, hyponatremia and hypokalemia in diarrhoeal diseases, electrolyte abnormalities in pyelonephritis of early infancy, septicemia induced pulmonary edema, and in hypersecretion and edema induced by inflammatory reactions of the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract. Components of membranous ion transport systems, which have been shown to undergo a change in function during an inflammatory response include the sodium potassium ATPase, the epithelial sodium channel, the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator and calcium activated chloride channels and the sodium potassium chloride co-transporter. Inflammatory mediators, which influence ion transport are tumor necrosis factor, gamma interferon, interleukins, transforming growth factor, leukotrienes and bradykinin. They trigger the release of specific messengers like prostaglandins, nitric oxide and histamine which alter ion transport system function through specific receptors, intracellular second messengers and protein kinases. This review summarizes data on in vivo measurements of changes in ion transport in acute inflammatory conditions and in vitro studies, which have explored the underlying mechanisms. Potential interventions directed at a correction of the observed abnormalities are discussed.
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PMID:Changes in ion transport in inflammatory disease. 1657 Nov 16