Gastrointestinal Transit of an Indigestible Solid in Patients on CAPD

Evidence for impaired assimilation of protein in chronic renal failure

“…Our findings are not that surprising considering the broad range of uremia-related gastrointestinal abnormalities reported in literature, including gastrointestinal motility disorders [37][38][39][40][41], small bowel bacterial overgrowth [42,43], gastric hypochlorhydria [26,37,44], and uremic pancreopathy [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. Each of them could theoretically disturb protein digestion and/or absorption.…”