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R Verberckmoes

Publications and source records attributed to R Verberckmoes.

At least 55 records · Page 3Linked to original sources
PubMed1975

Disappearance of vascular calcifications during treatment of renal osteodystrophy. Two patients treated with high doses of vitamin D and aluminum hydroxide.

In two patients with chronic renal failure, extensive renal osteodystrophy, and vascular calcifications, treatment with high doses of vitamin D3 and aluminum hydroxide was followed by healing of the osteodystrophy and marked resolution of the vascular calcifications. The importance of adequate serum phosphate control during this treatment is stressed. It is postulated that the presence of pathologic bone that was rendered more avid for mineral by the action of vitamin D contributed to the disposal of calcium and phosphorus derived from the calcified vessels and from a positive external balance.

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Influence of the hemodialysis on the half-life of practolol in patients with severe renal failure.

Practolol, a recent and more selective beta-adrenergic receptor blocking drug, was given orally as a single dose of 200 mg to seven healthy volunteers and to six patients suffering from severe renal impairment and submitted to the long-term hemodialysis program. The plasma drug decay was markedly slowed and the plasma half-life was prolonged sixfold in the uremic patients in comparison to healthy volunteers. Hemodialysis (8 hours) starting 48 hours after drug intake lowered plasma practolol significantly but transiently. The shorter half-life during hemodialysis and the detection of equally high values of practolol in the ultrafiltrates as in the plasma demonstrate that this drug is readily removable from the plasma. However, the ascending slope of the plasma drug concentration curve which appeared following hemodialysis is suggestive of an incomplete drug removal from the body.

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