Vitamin D treatment in hemodialysis patients with low serum levels of parathyroid hormone: which is the best choice?

Conclusions: Treatment with oral calcitriol was associated with a decrease in the serum levels of ALP and 25(OH)D; treatment with oral calcidiol was associated with more physiological serum levels of 25(OH)D and with an increase in the serum levels of ALP and PTH: whether the statistically significant differences in the biochemical parameters achieved with the 2 treatments have a clinical relevance, remains a matter of debate.
PMID: 20175051 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)