[The present state of vitamin D supplementation or treatment among chronic dialysis patients].
Because the chronic renal failure state basically means the active vitamin D deficiency, the minimum physiological daily dose of active vitamin D should be supplemented in all of the patients. But few informations about the frequency of vitamin D supplementation or treatment are available in European countries and in the USA. Only the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy presented the frequency of it in 2002, which was about 40 % of the dialysis patients, unexpectedly as same as that in Shinraku-En Hospital in 1985. Hypercalcemia, uncontrollable hyperphosphatemia, low ALP, and low PTH might impair the vitamin D introduction.
Suzuki
Masashi
M
Shinraku-En Hospital, Kidney Center.
D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000188:drug therapy; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000008:administration & dosage*
D014807:Vitamin D