| [ Summary ] |
Current hemodialysis therapy, in which most uremic patients are treated with intermittent dialysis session for 4 to 6 hours thrice a week, cannot satisfactorily achieve a correction of hyperphosphatemia, despite considerable increase in phosphate removal, through improvement of dialyzer membrane and dialysis procedure. In this article, phosphate kinetics is not defined, as the behavior of phospahte during hemodilaysis. Instead, from a clinical point of view, topics related to whole body kinetics in uremic patients are reviewed and discussed. |