title: Adequacy of hemodialysis.
abstract: The concept adequate includes blood purification, maintenance of electrolyte fluid, and acid-base equilibrium. Dialysis can completely reverse the retention of some small molecules, electrolytes (K, Na, Mg), water and acid-base, and has no effect on anemia, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, cardiomyopathies, malnutrition, bleeding, or partial effect on Ca-P balances. Other therapeutic interventions are necessary to optimally treat the uremic syndromes. Urea kinetic modelling is probably the most objective way of measuring the efficiency of dialysis but we must remember that there are numerous alterations in ESRD which cannot be measured by urea kinetic modelling.
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine Department, Department of Nephrology, Medical University of Lublin.
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ksiazek
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ksiazek
mesh_terms: D001825:Body Fluid Compartments / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D008954:Models, Biological; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014508:Urea / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D014508:Urea