Abstract
In 35 patients maintained solely on liquid formula diets, chromic oxide has been evaluated as an internal standard for balance studies that require stool collections. In 28 patients the excretion of chromic oxide was ideal: steady states were attained in which mean daily output was 90% (or more) of mean daily intake. In these patients corrections for fecal flow could validly be applied.
In patients who excreted the marker ideally, the availability of chromic oxide balance data made possible the calculation of pool sizes and turnover rates of unexcreted intestinal content. These indexes bore little relationship to the usual clinical descriptions of bowel habits. In some patient who had daily bowel movements, pool sizes were very large and daily turnover was small, i.e., a large proportion of the colonic contents was not excreted for surprisingly long periods. It is critically important for investigators to recognize this possibility when carrying out balance studies for fecal constituents that may be altered by bacterial action within the gut lumen: for instance, in 6 patients a significant inverse correlation was found between daily fecal turnover and degradative losses of large amounts of dietary β-sitosterol.
7 of 35 patients failed to attain the ideal steady state of chromic oxide excretion. These patients would not have been singled out if an internal standard had not been used. In such patients balance studies that require analysis of fecal constituents must be interpreted with great caution, since the constituents in question may be handled in the same nonideal fashion as the internal standard.
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