Original Article Vanadium in Patients Undergoing Chronic Haemodialysis

Abstract. The relationships between serum vanadium and serum aluminium, P2-microglobulin, silicon, phosphate, red blood cell count, haemoglobin and systolic blood pressure were studied in 80 chronic haemodialysis patients. Vanadium transfer during haemodialysis was also examined. Serum vanadium in 80 patients before haemodialysis was 18.4 ± 7.6 ng/ml (normal values: 0.4 + 0.2 ng/ml). Sig-nificant correlations between serum vanadium and serum aluminium, silicon, P2-microglobulin, phosphate, red blood cell count, haemoglobin, and systolic blood pressure were found. As ultrafiltrate vanadium was greater than vanadium in the dialysate, vanadium transfers from blood to dialysate. Therefore, serum vanadium before haemo-dialysis significantly decreased from 18.4+ 7.76 ng/ml to 13.0 ± 5.30 ng/ml, during a 5-h haemodialysis