Carnitine content in different muscles of patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis.

Objective: Chronic hemodialysis may lead to losses of carnitine from plasma and muscles. The aim of the present study was a comparison of carnitine contents in different human muscles (brachioradialis muscle and rectus muscle of abdomen) and evaluation of the correlation between plasma and tissue carnitine concentrations in patients receiving hemodialysis and healthy control patients.

Methods: The studies were performed in two groups of patients receiving hemodialysis.