201. Metabolic bone disease in the long-term parenteral nutrition patient
- Author
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E.W. Lipkin
- Subjects
Calcium metabolism ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Calcium balance ,business.industry ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Urine ,Calcium ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Metabolic bone disease ,Parenteral nutrition ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Linear growth ,business ,Feces - Abstract
Bone acts as a major reservoir that is available for the maintenance of serum calcium levels. An adult loses about 200 mg of calcium per day through the faeces (100 mg), urine (100 mg), and a very small amount through the skin. In children, about 400 mg per day of calcium are deposited in bone and they will cease 1:o grow normally if not maintained in sufficiently positive calcium balance. After the cessation of linear growth, bone undergoes remodelling at a rate of about 10% per year. The overall exchange of calcium in this process of remodelling is 500 rag/day (18.4 kg/year !). In a normal individual, these calcium needs are supplied by gut absorption, and therefore with intestinal disease, maintenance of calcium homeostasis becomes a major problem.
- Published
- 1995