Calcium-Based Phosphate Binders Are Appropriate in Chronic Renal Failure

Calcium-based phosphate binders are appropriate in chronic renal failure.

Many nephrologists feel threatened by the allegation that, in patients with chronic renal failure, treatment with calcium-based phosphate binders (calcium acetate and calcium carbonate) may induce coronary artery and cardiac calcification, thereby imposing a greater risk for death compared with sevelamer, a non-calcium-based binder. Acknowledging that drug manufacturers are not unaware of the m...

Suppression of secondary hyperparathyroidism in children with chronic renal failure by high dose phosphate binders: calcium carbonate versus aluminium hydroxide.

Secondary hyperparathyroidism was suppressed over a period of one year in 12 children with chronic renal failure by using a regimen of mild dietary phosphate restriction and high dose phosphate binders. The patients were randomised to receive either aluminium hydroxide or calcium carbonate by mouth for six months and then crossed over to the other medication. Vitamin D (dihydrotachysterol) dosa...

Erythrocyte calcium in chronic renal failure.

Con: Phosphate binders in chronic kidney disease.

Phosphate binders are prescribed to chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients based on associations of serum phosphate concentrations with mortality and calcification, experimental evidence for direct calcifying effects of phosphate on vascular smooth muscle tissue and the central importance of phosphate retention in CKD-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). Current knowledge regarding phosphate met...

The effects of non-calcium-based phosphate binders versus calcium-based phosphate binders on cardiovascular calcification and bone remodeling among dialysis patients: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.

BACKGROUND Vascular calcification significantly increases the rates of cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Abnormalities in mineral metabolism may play a role in the pathogenesis of arterial calcification. Whether patients treated with non-calcium-based phosphate binders had reduced aortic vascular calcification compared to those treated with calcium-based phosphate binders ...