Table 1.

Comparison between urinary IL-8 and elastase, before and 2 h after MAK3

	Before MAK3		After MAK3
	IL-8	elastase *	IL-8†	elastase ‡
Patient no.	(pg/μmol creat.)	(ng/μmol creat.)	(pg/μmol creat.)	(ng/μmol creat.)
1	0	0	8	179
2	82·4	1526·5	198·7	4207·1
3	0	0	14·6	0
5	42·3	445·8	96·8	1017·3
6	0	0	27·4	172·8
7	16·1	127·3	41·6	589·9
8	3·5	43·1	17·6	226·1
10	0	0	10·4	0
11	0	0	18·7	183·4
13	0	40·9	3·2	246·4
14	52·5	364·3	2·3	0
15	0	0	187·5	98·4

^*A correlation was observed between elastase and IL-8 (τ = 0·898; P < 0·0001).

^†Significant difference compared with the level before MAK3 (P = 0·006 sign test).

^‡Significant difference compared with the level before MAK3 (P = 0·02 sign test).