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In vitro buffering capacity of residual peritoneal dialysate fluid: implications for peritoneal dialysis therapy
M I Ahmed1, P A Rawal, N M Patel
1Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois 60141, USA.
Artificial Organs
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
The buffering capacity of the residual peritoneal dialysate fluid from each of 5 patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis was assessed by titrating with fresh, conventional, acidic, and lactate-containing peritoneal dialysis solutions. It was found that residual fluids had considerable buffering capacity.