Clinical applicability of inorganic phosphate measurements.
Many articles have warned of the dangers of too much and/or too little potassium, calcium or sodium in the blood, but phosphate has not received similar attention. Yet, because of its pivotal role in intermediary metabolism and its close solubility product relationship with ionized calcium, disordered phosphate homeostasis can have profound clinical effects.
Larner
A J
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Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.
D002985:Clinical Protocols / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010760:Phosphorus Metabolism Disorders / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology