
#192 Dialysis for the Internist with Joel Topf MD
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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How to Manage Mineral Bone Disease
Eurek: For mineral bone disease, it seems like get the numbers in a reasonable range. Eurek: Don't stress too much about it because we don't know if it really helps the patient. He says dialysis unit is not going to be too upset about the patient coming in at 160 and leaving at 140. And then the additional problem is when you look at blood pressure, the pre-dialysis blood pressure is not a good predictor of mortality as off dialysis day blood pressure is.
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