An apparatus is proposed primarily for comparison with other methods for determination of “blood ammonia,” and studies of involved factors. It employs the aeration-diffusion method of Van Slyke and Cullen, but in a closed system which avoids loss of ammonia and contamination with ammonia from the outside. Incomplete liberation of ammonia is avoided by the use of a moving thin film ever renewed ...

In an earlier publication’ dealing with a micro method for the estimation of urea in blood, I also described a micro method for the estimation of ammonia in blood and in organic secretions. For the determination of the ammonia two analyses are made; in the first the total urea plus ammonia is determined; and in the second the urea alone after the ammonia has been removed by evaporating the bloo...

The course and magnitude of spontaneous increase in ammonia concentration in plasma on standing were investigated with EDTA-treated blood specimens from 36 healthy subjects with use of a sensitive and precise enzymic method. Over 90 min, the rates of increase were virtually constant at fixed temperature. The mean (and SE) rates at 0, 20, and 37 degrees C were 3.9 (0.23), 5.2 (0.23), and 25.2 (0...

Cardiac PET imaging using 13N-ammonia and 18FDG was performed on 17 normal volunteers in the glucose-loaded and fasted states. PET images (glucose-loaded and fasted) were subjected to qualitative visual analysis using the descriptors: image quality, FDG blood-pool activity, ammonia lung field activity, and clinical interpretability. Glucose-loaded studies had better image quality, diminished FD...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MR imaging and (1)H-MR spectroscopy changes are well reported in cirrhotic patients, whereas they are inadequately reported in EHPVO. The aim of this study was to investigate age-related changes in brain MR imaging and metabolite profile in EHPVO with and without MHE and to explore any correlation of imaging and (1)H-MR spectroscopy parameters with blood ammonia. MATERI...

YAJIMA, Y., HIRASAWA, T. and SAHEKI, T. Treatment of Adult-Type Citrullinemia with Administration of Citrate. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1981;, 134 (3), 321-330 A 48-year-old man who showed a regular diurnal fluctuation of blood ammonia level was diagnosed as adult-type citrullinemia with quantitative estimation of plasma amino acids and urea cycle enzymes in the liver. The restriction of daily prote...

This study examined the influence of early atmospheric ammonia exposure, light intensity throughout rearing, and their interaction on blood gases, electrolytes, and acid-base balance in broiler chickens under environmentally controlled conditions. The experiment consisted of a 3 x 3 factorial arranged in a randomized complete block design, with trials being replicated over time. The 9 treatment...

Blood methanethiol and ammonia concentrations were measured in 16 healty volunteers, 52 consecutive alcoholic cirrhotics without overt hepatic encephalopathy (HE), and 42 consecutive patients with alcoholic liver disease and overt HE. The mean concentration of blood methanethiol was significantly greater than normal in the cirrhotics without overt HE, and the means of both methanethiol and ammo...

A review of the very full literature upon the concentration of ammonia in blood discloses much confusion and divergence in the reported values. For example, the range of values for the systemic blood of normal dogs is from a few hundredths of a mg. (Folin and Denis, 1) to 5 mg. (MacCallum and Voegtlin, 2) or more of ammonia nitrogen in 100 cc. Even more pronounced are variations in the data of ...

BACKGROUND Although studies have shown there is a correlation between increased blood ammonia level and hepatic encephalopathy, little information is available for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. METHODS AND RESULTS We did a prospective study of 357 adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest whose venous blood ammonia levels were measured on arrival at the emergency room...