The treatment of hyperphosphatemia was intensified by the additional mealtime administration of phosphate binders, such as aluminium hydroxide and calcium carbonate. Phosphate accumulation was ...

IT is a widely held view that oxides of iron and aluminium play important parts in phosphate sorption by acid soils. Several arguments in support of this are presented in reviews by Wild 1 and Hem ...

IT is generally accepted that much of the beneficial effect of phosphate applied to soils is due to fixation of aluminium. During a recent examination of mud from a mangrove swamp in Sierra Leone ...

Oral phosphate binding agents have been used for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in dialysis patients for decades. Their safety record was marred in the early 1980's by reports of aluminium ...