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Effect of a somatostatin analogue, octreotide, on renal haemodynamics and albuminuria in acromegalic patients
Author(s) -
DULLAART R. P. F.,
MEIJER S.,
MARBACH P.,
SLUITER W. J.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
european journal of clinical investigation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.164
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1365-2362
pISSN - 0014-2972
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2362.1992.tb01496.x
Subject(s) - effective renal plasma flow , endocrinology , medicine , renal function , acromegaly , octreotide , somatostatin , renal blood flow , albuminuria , renal circulation , hormone , growth hormone
. Although insulin‐like growth factor I increases renal function, the renal haemodynamic abnormality underlying the glomerular hyperfiltration in acromegaly is unknown. In normal subjects, amino acids and low doses of dopamine increase the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and effective renal plasma flow (ERPF), presumably by a predominant vasodila‐tion of the afferent and efferent glomerular arterioles, respectively. We studied baseline GFR and ERPF (determined with 125 I‐iothalamate and 131 I‐hippuran, respectively), the renal stimulatory effects of amino acid and dopamine infusion, and albuminuria before and after 3 months octreotide treatment in seven acromegalic patients with metabolically active disease. Octreotide reduced growth hormone concentrations from 14.7 ± 3.0 to 5.5 ±1.0 μg I ‐1 (mean±SEM, n = 7; P< 0.001) and insulin‐like growth factor I levels from 412± 1.31 to 2.44±0.68 kU I ‐1 (J><0.02). Glucagon concentrations did not change. Baseline GFR and ERPF declined from 132 ± 5 to 117 ±6 and from 547±32 to 478 ± 31 ml min ‐1 1.73 m ‐2 , respectively ( P <0.05 for both). Initially the response to amino acids was impaired (increment in GFR: 4.8±6.0%, NS; ERPF: ‐1.5 ±6.8%, NS), whereas the response to dopamine was normal (GFR: 10.6± 1.1%, P < 005: ERPF: 33.2 ± 3.1%, P <0.01). After octreotide, amino acid infusion increased GFR by 15.0 ± 6.8% ( P < 0.02) and ERPF by 11.3 ± 5.6% ( P < 0.02), while the dopamine response was unchanged. Initially, six patients were normo‐albuminuric and one had intermittent micro‐albuminuria. Octreotide reduced albuminuria by 22% overnight (median; P <005), and by 65% during the clearance studies ( P <0.05). In conclusion, afferent glomerular vasodilation appears to be an important characteristic of the glomerular hyperfiltration in acromegaly. Octreotide reverses this abnormality and reduces albuminuria.