Open AccessClinical Implications of the Relationship between Low Calcium Concentration Dialysate and Sudden Death
Author(s) -
Anthony J. Bleyer
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.03130313
Subject(s) - medicine , calcium , hemodialysis , dialysis , sudden cardiac death , sudden death , cardiology , qt interval
In this issue of CJASN , Pun et al. ([1][1]) increase our understanding about the risk of sudden death associated with lower calcium dialysate concentrations. For many years, we have known that lower calcium dialysate concentrations are associated with a prolongation of the QT interval and QT
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