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Received December 28, 2006
Accepted on June 20, 2007

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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.

	Abstract

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.

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