#192 Dialysis for the Internist with Joel Topf MD
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Calcium and Phosphorus in Dialysis Patients
It is not clear how much the calcifylaxis is related to their serum calcium and their serum phosphorus. The biggest risk factor for that is obesity and warfarin, way more than poorly contri- I see a lot of uncontrolled phosphorus all the time and thank God most of those patients never get calcifyl axis. To activate vitamin D requires healthy kidneys and none of our patients have healthy kidneys,. None of the patients on dialysis has healthy kidneys.
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