NDT Advance Access originally published online on August 22, 2005
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2005 20(11):2582-2583; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi085
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Letter
Comparison of the urine acidification tests of torsemide vs furosemide in healthy volunteers
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Sir,
The gold standard test to assess the ability to lower urine pH has traditionally been based on orally administered ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) [1]. The use of ammonium chloride for this purpose is not well accepted because the drug has unpredictable GI absorption when given in tablet form and has an unpleasant taste when administered in a powder
1 Department of Internal Medicine Hanyang University Guri Hospital Guri Korea2 Department of Medicine State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn Brooklyn NY, USA Email: kimhj@hanyang.ac.kr