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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Hypercalcemia during renal replacement therapy after liver transplantation
Authors:
J Matsumi, H Morimatsu, K Morita
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
Patients who suffer from acute kidney injury (AKI) show electrolyte abnormalities that can be corrected using renal replacement therapy (RRT). But some reports showed hypercalcemia during RRT and they reasoned this as the effect of citrate used for anticoagulant. We report eight post-liver transplantation (LT) recipients who suffered from AKI requiring RRT without citrate, but showed abnormal increase of ionized calcium (iCa) levels. …