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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 34, 2518-2520, Copyright © 1988 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Pyrochemiluminescence: real-time, cost-effective method for determining total urinary nitrogen in clinical nitrogen-balance studies

FN Konstantinides, KA Boehm, WJ Radmer, MC Storm, JT Adderly, SA Weisdorf and FB Cerra
Surgical Metabolic Research Facility, St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center/Ramsey Clinic, MN 55101.

Total urinary nitrogen (TUN) determinations for nitrogen-balance studies were traditionally performed by the Kjeldahl method, but this method is laborious, hazardous, prone to error, and no longer widely available in most clinical laboratories. During the last several decades, urinary urea nitrogen (UUN) determinations have replaced TUN as an index of urinary nitrogen excretion in many clinical laboratories, owing to its ease of determination, decreased cost, and wide availability. However, the validity of using UUN for estimating nitrogen loss has been questioned in many disease states, owing to wide variations in the proportional amount of urea found in TUN. Chemiluminescence has been proposed as an alternative to the Kjeldahl method for TUN. TUN values obtained from 24-h urine collections measured by both micro-Kjeldahl (x) and Pyrochemiluminescence (y) (Antek Instruments, Inc.) techniques were comparable by linear regression analysis: n = 97; r = 0.996; r2 = 0.992; y = 1.048x - 0.606; P less than 0.001. Automated induction of samples and calculation of results allows up to 42 samples to be run unattended. This dramatically reduces labor and overall costs for TUN determinations, while providing a more accurate and economical assessment of nitrogen excretion than UUN in a clinical setting.


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