Background: Aluminium-containing phosphate binders have long been used for treatment of hyperphosphatemia in dialysis patients. Their safety became controversial in the early 1980's after reports of ...

IMMUNIZATIONS combining diphtheria and tetanus toxoids with pertussis vaccine, using alum or aluminum hydroxide as an adjuvant, have been reported in studies by di Sant' Agnese, 1 Volk, 2 Fleming 3 ...

HYPERCALCEMIA occurs in a wide variety of diseases (for example, hyperparathyroidism, hypervitaminosis D, sarcoid, cancer, hyperthyroidism and poliomyelitis) 1 and is often responsible for many of the ...

The problem of phosphate accumulation became apparent quite early in the history of dialysis. Soft tissue and vascular calcification could often be clearly visualised on plain x-ray because of calcium ...