Abstract

• Oral aluminum salt intake has been implicated in aluminum intoxication in patients suffering from chronic renal failure. We studied to observ a level of serum aluminum in patients with maintenace dialysis and their relationship with oral aluminum salt intake.
  The results are as follows ;
  1) Serum aluminum concetration was 40± 12.0ug/1.
  2) Average daily dose of aluminum salt was 34± a2/12.2mg/kg.
  3) Recent daily dose of aluminum salt was 32a8± 18.9mg/kg.
  4) Total does of aluminum salt was 22± 23.2g/kg.
  5) Correlation coefficient between serum aluminum concentration and total dose was 0.32.
  6) Correlation coefficient between serum aluminum concentration and mean corpuscular volume of erythrocyte was -0.27.
  7) Correlation coefficient between serum ferritin and mean corpuscular volume of erythrocyte was 0.3.
  8) There was no correlation between serum aluminum concentration and several other variables including serum ferritin, daily dose of aluminum salt and serum creatinine.
  9) There was no correlation between mean corpuscular volume of erythrocyte and dose of aluminum salt.