[Characteristics of the course of periodontitis in kidney pathology]

A total of 104 subject were investigated and divided into 3 groups: 1. virtually healthy, without any clinical sign of periodontal inflammation; 2. periodontitis patients without internal organs affliction; 3. patients with renal pathology in which periodontitis was a concomitant disease. Biochemical investigation of the blood, oral and gingival fluids was performed. The peculiarities of periodontal involvement into renal pathology were established with lactate dehydrogenase and acid phosphatase both considerably activated in the oral and gingival fluids in groups 2 and 3. These enzymes were also activated in patients with chronic renal diseases.