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Metabolic Alkalosis in CAPD Patients
Author(s) -
Tattersall James
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
seminars in dialysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1525-139X
pISSN - 0894-0959
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-139x.1996.tb00904.x
Subject(s) - medicine , metabolic alkalosis , metabolic acidosis , hypoxemia , intensive care medicine , alkalosis , acidosis
Over the past year, our PD unit has found metabolic alkalosis to have become a more common problem than metabolic acidosis. I assume it's related to the new low calcium dialysate now in use widely. Is this a common experience? Is there a danger from this (soft tissue calcifications, kidney stones, hypoxemia)?