Metabolic alkalosis in a hemodialysis patient – successful treatment with a proton pump inhibitor B.M. Kirsch, G. Sunder-Plassmann, C. Schwarz Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
DOI 10.5414/CNP66391
Abstract
Hemodialysis patients develop metabolic acidosis due to their impaired excretion of daily produced protons (H+). The following report will show a rare case of severe metabolic alkalosis (predialysis pH 7.52, base excess (BE) +17) in a hemodialysis woman caused by self-provoked upper gastrointestinal H+ losses based on an eating disorder. Treatment with a proton pump inhibitor resulted in the normalization of acid/base homeostasis (predialysis pH 7.40, BE +1.6).
Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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B.M. Kirsch, MD
Division of Nephrology and Dialysis
Department of Medicine III
Medical University of Vienna
Währingergürtel 18-20
1090 Vienna, Austria Email: [email protected]
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B.M. Kirsch, G. Sunder-Plassmann and C. Schwarz.Metabolic alkalosis in a hemodialysis patient – successful treatment with a proton pump inhibitor.2006; 66: 391-394. doi: 10.5414/CNP66391.
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