[Hemodialysis and metabolic disorders].

On the basis of investigations of the water and electrolyte balance, of the protein balance, the lipid metabolism and the hormone metabolism at the instance of aldosterone a concept of specific dialysis-conditioned pathophysiological disturbances is developed in patients undergoing a chronic programma of dialysis. The changes of metabolism induced by apparative therapy have a decisive influence on the pathophysiological mechanisms in the uraemic organism and condition a specific pathophysiology of the patient undergoing dialysis.