What treatment would you advise for a 1-year-old child with chronic renal failure who has been on aluminum hydroxide as a phosphate binder for 6 months and then develops epilepsy and is found to have a grossly raised plasma aluminum concentration?

Pediatr Nephrol. 1990 Jul;4(4):318. doi: 10.1007/BF00862507.

Authors

S P Andreoli¹, R W Chesney, I B Salusky, A B Sedman

Affiliation

¹ Indiana University, Riley Children's Hospital, Indianapolis.

PMID: 2206897
DOI: 10.1007/BF00862507

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aluminum / blood*
Aluminum Hydroxide / adverse effects*
Aluminum Hydroxide / therapeutic use
Deferoxamine / therapeutic use
Epilepsy / chemically induced*
Humans
Infant
Kidney Failure, Chronic / drug therapy
Kidney Failure, Chronic / metabolism*

Substances

Aluminum Hydroxide
Aluminum
Deferoxamine