Endocrine Abstracts

Parathormone (PTH) is the marker for bone remodelling in chronic renal failure. The biologically active PTH 1–84 intact molecule (PTHibio) is supposed to better correlate with the degree of remodelling than PTH-intact (PTHi) which also binds to the 1–34 fragment. Our aim was to examine the PTH levels in dialysed patients with these two methods, considering also the total 25-hydroxi-vitamin-D (t-25OHD) levels.Methods: patients (age 63±15 ye...