Open AccessHidden Hypercalcemia and Mortality Risk in Incident Hemodialysis Patients
Author(s) -
Yoshitsugu Obi,
Rajnish Mehrotra,
Matthew B. Rivara,
Elani Streja,
Connie M. Rhee,
Wei Ling Lau,
Csaba P. Kövesdy,
Kamyar KalantarZadeh
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2016-1369
Subject(s) - hemodialysis , medicine , intensive care medicine
Neither uncorrected- nor albumin-corrected total calcium reliably predict ionized calcium in patients with end-stage renal disease. However, little is known about the consequences of inaccurate assessment of calcium concentration using total calcium.
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