Biochemical and imaging alterations of renal bone disease in newly detected predialysis and on maintenance dialysis patients.

Skeletal involvement in chronic kidney disease manifests long before the initiation of dialysis. This study aimed at identifying the extent of renal bone disease among predialysis and on maintenance dialysis patients. Thirty-two patients (Group 1) on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) for a variable period of time were compared with 20 newly detected irregularly treated advanced renal failure (immediately predialysis), patients (Group 2) for their clinical, biochemical and imaging features.