The Effect of Low Magnesium Dialysate on Plasma, Ultrafiltrable, Erythrocyte and Bone Magnesium Concentrations from Patients on Maintenance Haemodialysis

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Dialysis fluid containing a low concentration of magnesium ( ≤ 0.05 mmol/l) was used to treat 17 patients on maintenance haemodialysis for varying periods of time up to 5 years. Mean plasma and ultrafiltrable magnesium concentrations measured in these patients before haemodialysis did not differ significantly from control values; after dialysis, plasma and ultrafiltrable magnesium concentrations were reduced only temporarily. Erythrocyte magnesium concentrations were elevated both before and after haemodialysis: dialysis did not significantly alter the mean concentrations. There was no significant correlation between the length of time on maintenance haemodialysis and either plasma or erythrocyte magnesium levels. As the mean magnesium concentration of bone biopsy specimens was also significantly greater than the mean from the control subjects, there was no evidence that magnesium depletion had been produced in these dialysis patients.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): NEF

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Nephron

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1660-8151

Title: Nephron

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1660-8151

ISSN (Electronic): 2235-3186

Publication date Subscription-year: 1974

Publication date (Print): 1974

Publication date (Electronic): 28 November 2008

Volume: 13

Issue: 5

Pages: 372-381

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Departments of Medicine and Chemical Pathology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

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Publisher ID: 180413 Other ID: Nephron 1974;13:372–381

DOI: 10.1159/000180413

PubMed ID: 4431548

SO-VID: 904babf8-8af1-4430-acf6-efac55472e86

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Date received : 07 January 1974

Date accepted : 16 April 1974

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Pages: 10

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