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Abstract
I:N’TRODUC’TION
AND Aift OF 1”HE WORK
Mace et al. (1984), raised the question of impairment of
urate excretion in patients with cardiac diseases. On serial
measurements of serum uric acid levels and the urinary
clearance of uric acid, they indicated that these levels may
change depending on patient’s clinical and hence dynamic state.
If a patient’s clinical condition worsens, the serum uric acid
levels increases and the uric acid clearance rate decreases,
there is a significant relationship between degree of
polycythemia and uric acid level in serum of patients with
congenital cyanotic heart diseases. It was also postulated that
serum uric acid can be affected by medications as in patients
given iron therapy.
The present work aims to assess serum uric acid in
patients with cyanotic congenital heart diseases and patients
with rheumatic heart disease, and correlating these levels with
age, sex, RllC’ s mass and hematocrit value in an attempt to
evaluate the urate metabolism in Egyptian children with cardiac
disease.