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ArticleOncotarget2017

Survey of urinary nickel in peritoneal dialysis patients.

Ya-Ching Huang, Hsiao-Chen Ning, Shang-Syuan Chen, Chia-Ni Lin, I-Kwan Wang, Shu-Man Weng, Cheng-Hao Weng, Ching-Wei Hsu, Wen-Hung Huang, Jang-Jih Lu and 2 more

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Ya-Ching Huang *Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
Hsiao-Chen Ning *Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
Shang-Syuan ChenDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
Chia-Ni LinDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
I-Kwan WangDepartment of Nephrology, Chang Medical University Hospital and College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Shu-Man WengDepartment of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan.
Cheng-Hao WengDepartment of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan.
Ching-Wei HsuDepartment of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan.
Wen-Hung HuangDepartment of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan.
Jang-Jih LuDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
Tsu-Lan WuDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
Tzung-Hai YenDepartment of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan.

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Abstract

This study surveyed urinary nickel concentrations in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients, and analyzed the association of urinary nickel concentrations with clinical outcomes and inflammatory biomarkers. In total, 50 PD patients and 50 healthy controls were recruited for this study. All participants were examined for the presence of toxic trace elements (antimony, arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, copper, manganese, mercury, nickel, lead, tellurium, thallium and zinc) in their urine by using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). It was found that PD patients demonstrated higher urinary nickel concentrations than healthy controls (6.1±3.5 versus 2.8±1.4 μg/L, P<0.001). There were 24 (48.0%) PD patients with normal urinary nickel concentrations, and 26 (52.0%) PD patients with high urinary nickel concentrations. The PD patients with high urinary nickel concentrations demonstrated higher log serum levels of high sensitivity C-reactive protein (0.4±0.5 versus 0.1±0.5 mg/L, P=0.046) than patients with normal urinary nickel concentrations. Furthermore, patients with high urinary nickel concentrations exhibited higher levels of cadmium (1.3±0.9 versus 0.6±0.5 μg/L, P<0.001), copper (7.7±5.7 versus 3.3±1.4 μg/L, P<0.001) and manganese (0.9±1.1 versus 0.4±0.4 μg/L, P=0.023) than patients with normal urinary nickel concentrations. Nevertheless, there were no significant differences in the clinical outcomes between PD patients with high and normal urinary nickel concentrations (P>0.05). Thus, it is concluded that approximately half of the patients undergoing PD had elevated urinary nickel levels, and these patients also had elevated serum levels of high sensitivity C-reactive protein. Nevertheless, no other real correlations were discovered including no impact on patient outcome. Further studies are warranted.

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high sensitivity C-reactive proteininductively coupled plasma mass spectrometryinflammationnickelperitoneal dialysis

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