Calcium Concentration in Bicarbonate Hemodialysis (HD)

Miulli General Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Calcium Mass Balances and Serum Calcium Profiling in hd Patients

Treatments: Other: Dialysate calcium concentration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01353170

Basile calcium

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was designed in order to investigate the effects of 3 different dialysate calcium concentrations may exert on mineral metabolism and hemodynamic stability in standard hemodialysis (hd).

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• bicarbonate hd since 6 months
• uncomplicated hd sessions

Exclusion criteria

• Incident patients
• unstable hd patients
• patients aged less than 18 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

Prevalent hd patients

Experimental group

Description:

Patients undergoing three consecutive cross-over hd session with 3 different dialysate calcium concentrations

Treatment:

Other: Dialysate calcium concentration