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 ...

Background: Aluminium-containing phosphate binders have long been used for treatment of hyperphosphatemia in dialysis patients. Their safety became controversial in the early 1980's after reports ...

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 ...