Assessment of calcium balance in patients on hemodialysis, based on ionized calcium and parathyroid hormone responses.
Conclusion: The results suggest that measurement of pCa2+ and PTH at the beginning and the end of HD provides useful information about calcium fluxes in individual patients. Further validation of this approach
is warranted.
PMID: 23475464 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)