TO THE EDITOR: Several years ago, we addressed the question of why blood bicarbonate
concentration ([HCO3 À]) fails to increase notably during the last half of a standard …

1) We performed detailed measurements of blood from both the arterial and venous limbs of
the hemodialysis circuit and of dialysate. Results of these analyses, for both bicarbonate …

The low bath bicarbonate concentration ([]) used by a nephrology group in Japan (25.5
mEq/L), coupled with a bath [acetate] of 8 mEq/L, provided an opportunity to study the acid …

The blood acid-base balance is strikingly affected by hemodialysis. A restoration of blood
buffer systems,(expressed in [HCO 3−]) is the most prominent change, and since reduction …

The use of high dialysate bicarbonate for hemodialysis in end-stage renal disease is
associated with increased mortality, but potential physiological mediators are poorly …

The main purpose of this communication is to provide a critical analysis of the existing data
on acidbase equilibrium in patients on maintenance dialysis. Patients on maintenance …

To compare the effect of maintenance bicarbonate hemodialysis on the serum anion gap
(AG) and the serum HCO 3, the authors retrospectively evaluated the data of 28 patients …

In 1964, acetate was introduced into dialysis therapy as a substitute for bicarbonate to
overcome the technical problem of precipitation of carbonate salts in the bath (Mion et al …

In patients receiving hemodialysis, it has long been recognized that much more bicarbonate
is delivered during treatment than ultimately appears in the blood. To gain insight into this …

Acid-base balance in chronic peritoneal dialysis patients. Endogenous acid production has
never been measured directly in dialysis patients and an empiric formula is used to estimate …