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7036724

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-4-22
pubmed:abstractText
Nine patients on long-term hemodialysis with dialysis encephalopathy were studied, with sex matched control subjects for eight of the patients. Each patient with dialysis encephalopathy and control subject were contemporaries in a similar dialysis environment. Rib and other fractures were found in excess in the patients with dialysis encephalopathy (p less than 0.005 and p less than 0.01). These patients had less radiographic hyperparathyroid bone disease, and no more osteopenia as measured by metacarpal thickness than did their control counterparts. Severe osteomalacia was documented by bone biopsy in four of te patients. In a retrospective review of clinical, biochemical and pharmacologic differences, the patients with dialysis encephalopathy were significantly older at the start of dialysis (45.6 years versus 38.6 years, p less than 0.02) and had higher mean concentrations of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and lower serum hemoglobin in the first year of dialysis than the control subjects. Blood pressure weight, creatinine, calcium, phosphate, alkaline phosphatase and a number of transfusions did not differ significantly. There was no difference in prescribed vitamin D and elemental aluminum in phosphate binders. This study demonstrates that patients with dialysis encephalopathy had more rib fractures without more parathyroid or osteopenic bone disease than did the control subjects and suggests that the etiology of dialysis encephalopathy and osteomalacia is multifactorial.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0002-9343
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
72
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
33-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
Dialysis encephalopathy and osteomalacic bone disease: a case-controlled study.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't