Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dialysate sodium of 138 mmol/L or lower was associated with higher mortality. Mortality risk was lower among ...

The optimal dialysate bicarbonate concentration is one that prevents acidosis at the beginning of the next dialysis session while avoiding postdialysis alkalosis. Few studies have assessed the effect ...

Selected pediatric patients had baseline hypertension, a predialytic serum sodium of 130 mmol/L or higher, and a low incidence of intradialytic events. Use of a low dialysate sodium concentration ...

April 22, 2010 (Orlando, Florida) — Dialysis bloodlines designed to deliver higher blood flow result in a lower dialysate dose than standard tubing, according to a crossover study presented here at ...

As blood in the peritoneal capillaries comes into contact with dialysate in the peritoneal cavity, solutes in the blood diffuse into the dialysate. The osmotic gradient created by glucose in the ...

Using a cooler dialysate during maintenance hemodialysis didn't provide any cardiovascular (CV) benefits, according to the cluster-randomized MyTEMP trial. In the study of 84 dialysis centers in ...

Dialysis is a life-sustaining therapy for hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide with kidney failure. However, dialysis care is currently reliant on expensive and inefficient filtration ...

In a study, use of “high” dialysate calcium of 3.5 mEq/L in new hemodialysis patients was associated with poor outcomes. WASHINGTON—High dialysate calcium (DCa) is a risk factor for all-cause ...