[Long-term effects of a combination of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol and 1-alpha-hydroxycholecalciferol on osteodystrophy in chronic hemodialysis patients]

Abstract

vitamin compounds to the basic dialytic treatment of renal osteodystrophy is of contestable interest. Because 1) optimum conditions of dialysis without D vitamin addition prevent efficiently the progress of severe gyperparathyroidism and osteomalacia 2) the D vitamin compunds could render the phosphatemia control more difficult thus contributing to aggravate the histologic lesions of hyperparathyroidism.