Author/Editor		Pahor, Dušica; Hojs, R; Gračner, B
Title		Hornhaut - und Bindehautveraenderungen bei haemodialysierten Patienten
Translated title		Corneal and conjunctival changes in hemodialysis patients
Type		članek
Source		Spektrum Augenheilkd
Vol. and No.		Letnik 12, št. 1
Publication year		1998
Volume		str. 16-8
Language		ger
Abstract		In patients with chronic renal failure that are treated hemodialysis (HD), deposits of calcium phosphate salts are found in the cornea and conjuctiva. This study includes 19 HD patients, 8 women and 11 men, whose average age was 41,4 years and average duration of dialysis treatment was 43,5 monts. The aim of the present study was to establishe the frequency of corneal an d conjuctival crystalline deposits in HD patients and also to detect a possible correlation between these deposits and serum values of calcium, phosphate, alumium, parathormon and the calcium x phosphat products. It was additionally our aim to establish a possible corelation with age and duration of dialysis treatment. in 15 out of 19 HD patients (79%), typical crystalline deposits were found, bouth incornea and conjuctiva. A comparison of serum vlues in patients with and without such deposits revealed no significant difference (p > 0.05). It was observed that the appearance of these deposits were only correlated with the duration of dialysis (p < 0.05).
Descriptors		KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC HEMODIALYSIS CORNEAL DISEASES CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES CALCIUM PHOSPHATES CALCINOSIS ALUMINUM CALCIUM PHOSPHATES PARATHYROID HORMONES