Point-of-Care Testing to Differentiate Various Acid-Base Disorders in Chronic Kidney Disease.
Tomasz GołębiowskiSławomir C ZmonarskiWiktoria RożekMateusz PowązkaPatryk JerzakMaciej GołębiowskiMariusz Andrzej KusztalPiotr OlczykJakub StojanowskiKrzysztof LetachowiczMirosław BanasikAndrzej KoniecznyMagdalena KrajewskaPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
The most common type of acid-base disturbance in CKD patients in stages 4 and 5 is AGMA, which is observed in patients with better kidney function and is associated with compensatory hyperchloremia. The initiation of renal replacement therapy was significantly earlier for patients diagnosed with HAGMA compared to those diagnosed with AGMA. The more advanced the CKD, the higher the AG.