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Published ahead of print on August 16, 2007
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
© 2007 American Society of Nephrology
doi: 10.2215/CJN.04451206
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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 {dagger}{ddagger}{sect}, Rajnish Mehrotra {ddagger}, Jennie Jing {dagger}, Charles J. McAllister ||, Sander Greenland {sect}, Joel D. Kopple {ddagger}{sect}, and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh {dagger}{ddagger}1

*Division of Nephrology, Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salem, and Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; and {dagger}Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology and {ddagger}Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Los Angeles Biomedical Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, {sect}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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