Obese, Caucasian females over age 50 with diabetes and on dialysis because their kidneys have failed are among those at highest risk for the rare and deadly condition calciphylaxis, according to ...

Calciphylaxis occurs when calcium and phosphorus bind to form a biological cement that blocks and inflames small blood vessels, putting patients at risk for major infection and skin ulcers as well ...

My colleagues and I examined the association between phosphorus level and the incidence of dialysis or doubling of serum creatinine in 985 male US veterans with CKD and found that higher ...

Patients on dialysis typically require a combination of dietary modification and phosphate binder therapy (to reduce intestinal absorption of phosphorus) to manage hyperphosphatemia, she added.

The study randomized a total of 564 patients with CKD on dialysis who had a serum phosphorus level between 6.0 mg/dL and 10.0 mg/dL and had an increase in serum phosphorous of at least 1.5 mg/dL ...

“Phosphorus management is critical for people who are in kidney failure, but it is something that can present challenges for people on dialysis,” said LaVarne A. Burton, AKF President and CEO.

The 59 patients on incident hemodialysis in the study had a mean age of 56 years and time on dialysis was 7.3 months at baseline. After SO initiation, the authors reported, overall mean serum ...

Phosphorus levels greater than 5.5 mg/dL have been shown to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients requiring dialysis (Block 2004), and ...

Dialysis and kidney transplantation are treatments for severe kidney failure, also called kidney (or renal) failure, stage 5 chronic kidney disease, and end-stage kidney (or renal) disease.

4.1.7 The Assessment Group reported subgroup analyses by baseline plasma intact PTH, serum Ca x P, serum calcium, serum phosphorus and dialysis duration for a variety of biochemical endpoints. However ...