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[A comparison of phosphorus-chelating effect of calcium carbonate versus calcium acetate before dialysis].

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2000

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Juan Borrego, Pilar Pérez del Barrio, P Serrano, Maria José García Cortés, M.C. Sánchez Perales, Francisco Borrego, A Liébana, José Manuel Gil Cunquero, Vicente Pérez Bañasco
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Abstract

1) Both calcium carbonate and calcium acetate are similarly effective as phosphate binder. 2) The carbonate group required four fold greater doses of calcium that acetate group. 3) The calcium acetate has less hypercalcemic effect than calcium carbonate.