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Comparison of bone formation rates measured by radiocalcium kinetics and double-tetracycline labeling in maintenance dialysis patients

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We report 23 prospective studies on 18 maintenance dialysis patients in whom we measured skeletal mineralization rate (m) using 47Ca, analyzed by the expanding pool model, and compared it with the histologic bone formation rate (bfr), volume referent, estimated on tetracycline-labeled iliac crest bone. The patients showed a spectrum of bone disease types including adynamic bone, aluminum-related osteomalacia, and various degrees of secondary hyperparathyroidism. The mean width between double labels, on which mineral apposition rate depended, was estimated using a simple formula relating area to perimeter for each feature enclosed by the labels. Values for m ranged from 0 to 155 mmol calcium per day and for bfr from 0 to 124% per year. There was close correlation between m and bfr (r=0.976), serum alkaline phosphatase (r=0.968), and serum immunological parathyroid hormone (iPTH) (r=0.868). When the volumetric bfr was converted to mass units and applied to the whole skeleton, using literature values for mineral density and cortical and trabecular mass, there was close agreement between the histologic and isotopic estimates of m (r=0.959). The results validate the two methods and suggest they are interchangeable. However, use of a rigorous method to determine bfr appears to be essential.

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  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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Cochran, M., Neville, A. & Marshall, E.A. Comparison of bone formation rates measured by radiocalcium kinetics and double-tetracycline labeling in maintenance dialysis patients. Calcif Tissue Int 54, 392–398 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00305526

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