Value of serum aluminium monitoring in dialysis patients: a multicentre study

Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation : Official Publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association
P C D'HaeseM E De Broe

Abstract

The clinical relevance of regular serum aluminium monitoring in dialysis patients was investigated in a multicentre study by 6-monthly determination of the serum aluminium during 4 consecutive years. In a group totalling 1193 patients, a striking decrease of mean serum aluminium was observed the last 2 years of the study. This phenomenon was accompanied by a substantial reduction of the prescribed dose of aluminium hydroxide (Al(OH)3) and its partial replacement by calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and/or magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2). Under this policy serum phosphate control remained satisfactory. In all the centres, water treatment was found to be adequate, yielding dialysate aluminium around 2 micrograms/l. Dialysis patients with clinically overt liver disease showed a significantly greater median serum aluminium concentration than that observed in a control dialysis population. Compared to the latter group, the median serum aluminium concentration of dialysis patients with diabetes mellitus did not differ significantly. Results further indicated that patients with biopsy-proven osteomalacia presented a significantly greater median serum aluminium compared to that of patients without osteomalacia. We demonstrated that a serum alumi...Continue Reading

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