Received December 28, 2006
Accepted on June 20, 2007
Serum and Dialysate Potassium Concentrations and Survival in Hemodialysis Patients
Csaba P. Kovesdy *,
Deborah L. Regidor 

,
Rajnish Mehrotra
,
Jennie Jing
,
Charles J. McAllister ||,
Sander Greenland
,
Joel D. Kopple 
,
and
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh 
1
*Division of Nephrology, Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salem, and Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; and
Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology and
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Los Angeles Biomedical Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance,
School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, and ||DaVita, Inc., El Segundo, California
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kamkal{at}ucla.edu.
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Abstract |
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Background and objectives: Controlling serum potassium is an important goal in maintenance hemodialysis patients. We examined the achievement of potassium balance through hemodialysis treatments and the associated fluctuations in serum potassium.