Serum Potassium And Cause-Specific Mortality In A Large Contemporary Peritoneal Dialysis Cohort

• Main Authors: Klara Torlén (Author), Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (Author), Miklos Z. Molnar (Author), Tania Sharma (Author), Rajnish Mehrotra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Korean Society of Nephrology, 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Unlike hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a continuous therapy and does not induce myocardial stunning. However, since the death risk in HD and PD patients is similar we tested the hypothesis that low serum potassium levels contribute more to the high cardiac risk seen with PD resulting...