Table 1. ClinicalDetails and Data on Purines ... - Clinical Chemistry

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Eric P. Brass Depts. of Med. and Pharmacol. Div. of Clin. Pharmacol., Univ. of Colorado Health 4200 East Ninth Ave. Denver, CO 80262

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and Med. Case Western Reserve Univ. and Cleveland VA Med. Center Cleveland, OH 44106

Asymptomatlc Xanthlnuria Detected as a Result of RoutineAnalysis of Serum for Urate To the Editor:

Biochemical “proffling” is now a common first line of patient investigation, its major advantage being early, pre-symptomatic detection of some diseases-in particular, primary hyperparathyroidism, owing to the inclusion of analysis for serum calcium in the proffle. Recently, the inclusion of serum glucose has proved to be an effective means of early diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (1). Serum urate is often included in the proffle, detection of hyperuricemic states being the prime concern. We have further investigated patients with hypo-uricemia and as a result have diagnosed two unrelated patients with xanthine oxidase (EC 1.2.3.2) deficiency. A total of seven patients with profound hypo-uricemia (serum urate 492

1. ClinicalDetails and Data on Purines Urate concn, MmoI/L

Age at dIagnosIs,

Reason for

Patient

Sex

years

S.B.b

2

16

Anemia

35

Abdominal

K.B.d a

profile

Serum 20

concn,

moUL

UrIne Serum UrIne Serum 69 (3)C 326 (30) 29 (2) 17

pain 34 15 25 556 20 range 150-450 imol/L. b SB. is the second of five daughters of Pakistani are not affected. cConol figuresin parentheses. dK.B. is from the Ivory Coast.