[The fibrinolytic system in uric acid dysmetabolism].

The subjects of the study were 50 first-degree relatives of patients with uric acid (UA) dysmetabolism. The subjects were divided into three groups: 15 with hyperuricosuria and normal UA blood level (group 1), 17--with hyperuricosuria and hyperuricemia (group 2), and 18--with hyperuricemia and lowered UA clearance (group 3). All of them displayed inhibited urine fibrinolytic activity (UFA) and reduced urokinase activity. The degree of UFA inhibition correlated with urokinase activity (r = 0.60) and grew from group 1 to group 3; the subjects in the latter had maximal manifestations of tubulointerstitial nephritis, which suggests that disorder of the local fibrinolytic mechanisms plays an important role in the development and progress of urate tubulointerstitial renal lesion. No changes of blood fibrinolysis were observed.