UREA SALVAGE IN A NEONATE WITH CLOACAL EXSTROPHY

Citation
Ra. Wheeler et al., UREA SALVAGE IN A NEONATE WITH CLOACAL EXSTROPHY, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 69(1), 1993, pp. 83-84
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics
ISSN journal
00039888
Volume
69
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
83 - 84
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9888(1993)69:1<83:USIANW>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Urea kinetics were measured in a child with congenital absence of the colon on days 15, 19, and 23 of age. Urea salvage was 5% of urea produ ction in the first study, increasing to 79% by the third. This provide s evidence that the colonic microflora play a more active part in urea salvage than the mucosa and that the establishment of an active lower ileal microflora takes over some of the metabolic functions of the in tact colon.