About Shifts in K and Na Metabolism in Diffuse Kidney Diseases

We carried out a complex-synchronous study of the content of K and Na in blood plasma, erythrocytes, urine and gastric contents in 87 people, including 19 healthy people who made up the control group and 68 patients with diffuse kidney diseases without pronounced clinical disorders of water metabolism and without significant violations of the concentration and nitrogen excretion function of the kidneys. The patients were mostly young and middle-aged, 44 of them suffered from chronic pyelonephritis, 24 - from chronic diffuse glomerulonephritis. The content of K and Na was determined using flame photometry. Gastric contents were received on an empty stomach and after the introduction of Erman's breakfast. The gastric juice was diluted 40 times and filtered through two layers of gauze.