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Regional citrate anticoagulation for slow continuous ultrafiltration: risk of
severe metabolic alkalosis
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Alsabbagh MM
; Ejaz AA
; Purich DL
; Ross EA
Clin Kidney J
2012[Jun]; 5
(3
): 212-6
PMID26069766
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BACKGROUND: Slow continuous ultrafiltration (SCUF) is a safe and efficient
treatment for fluid overload in patients who are hemodynamically unstable, have
low urine output, and are not in need of dialysis or hemofiltration for solute
clearance. Sustained anticoagulation is required for these long treatments, thus
posing clinically challenges for patients having contraindications to systemic
anticoagulation with heparin. Regional citrate anticoagulation would be an
alternative option; however, we believed that this would be problematic due to
citrate kinetics that predicted the development of metabolic alkalosis. METHODS:
In that patients' serum bicarbonate reached 45 mEq/L and arterial pH rose to 7.59
after just 3 days of SCUF, we developed equations to study this phenomenon. We
report here the acid-base balance calculations quantifying base accumulation in
SCUF compared to continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH). RESULTS: This
kinetic approach demonstrates the importance of accounting for the high citrate
clearance into CVVH hemofiltrate, which prevents development of the alkalosis
seen with the relatively low ultrafiltration rates in SCUF: there was net
bicarbonate accumulation of ?1400 mmol/day with SCUF, compared to 664 to as low
as 274 mmol/day during CVVH. The calculations underscore the importance of the
relative fluid flow rates as well as the bicarbonate and citrate levels in the
various infused solutions. We also discuss how citrate's acid-base effects are
potentially complicated by metabolism via gluconeogenic and ketone body pathways.
CONCLUSIONS: These acid-base balance findings emphasize why clinicians must be
mindful of the risk of metabolic alkalosis when using continuous renal
replacement therapy modalities with low rates of ultrafiltration, which thereby
presents a contraindication for using citrate anticoagulation for SCUF.