This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

III. RENAL DISEASE, NEOPLASTIC DISEASE AND INFECTION

HARRY A. DAVIS, M.D.; FRANZ K. BAUER, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1944;48(3):193-196.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

It has been shown in previous papers that persons suffering from hepatic disease or from toxic thyroid disease present evidence of vitamin B₁ malnutrition as revealed by the blood levels of pyruvic acid. The present paper is concerned with a study of persons suffering from renal disease, neoplastic disease and infection.

RENAL DISEASE

The kidney plays a significant role in the metabolism of vitamin B₁. Greater amounts of this vitamin are present in the liver, heart, brain, muscles and kidneys than in other tissues. The kidneys excrete a considerable quantity of the vitamin daily. This excretion continues, but to a lesser extent, even in the presence of vitamin B₁ deficiency. Finally, renal tissue is one of the tissues which can convert vitamin B₁ into cocarboxylase (Westenbrink and Goudsmit¹). In view of these facts the question arises: In the presence of renal disease is there diminished . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW ORLEANS

From the Department of Surgery of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine and Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?