This update focuses on the bioavailability of dietary calcium for humans. Fundamentals of
calcium metabolism, intestinal absorption, urinary excretion and balance are recalled …

In this chapter, the term 'renal osteodystrophy'will be used in a generic sense to include all
the clinical syndromes of skeletal disease and altered calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) …

A comparison was made of the biochemical and osseous effects of 25–hydroxyvitamin D3
[25 (OH) D3], lα–25–hydroxyvitamin D3 [lα, 25 (OH) 2D3], and 24, 25–dihydroxyvitamin …

1, 25 dihydroxycholecalciferol [1, 25 (OH) 2D3] was studied in a double-blind controlled
fashion in patients on chronic dialysis. Serum calcium was unchanged in 16 patients on …

Measurements of true calcium absorption fraction in women were evaluated to see how
closely calculations based on a single measurement of serum specific activity after …

The effect of treatment with hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) and dietary sodium restriction on
calcium economy in glucocorticoid-treated patients was investigated. Fractional 47 Ca …

ABSTRACT A five‐year study of short‐term dialysis using highly permeable polyacrylonitrile
membrane AN 69 was started in March 1973 to compare the effects of AN 69 and …

Chronic renal failure is characterized by profound alterations in the orderly biochemical and
physiological sequelae that normally condition cellular integrity and metabolic homeostasis …

Many clinical similarities between renal osteodystrophy and nutritional rickets have
suggested that a defect in either the metabolism or action of vitamin D exists in chronic renal …

Methods Six patients on hemodialysis were selected for the study on the basis of 1) an
initially well controlled plasma phosphorus concentration (< 4.5 mg/100 ml); 2) full …