Total Body Potassium in Non-dialysed and Dialysed Patients with Chronic Renal Failure

Abstract

Total body potassium was studied in 33 patients with chronic renal failure, 18 of whom had been receiving regular dialysis therapy for 1 to 48 months. In non-dialysed patients body potassium was not significantly different from normal in the group as a whole, but was significantly greater than normal in three patients, and significantly less than normal in two patients. In 14 of the dialysed patients, both as individuals and as a group. © 1972, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.