Lanthanum carbonate (Fosrenol) is safe and effective for the treatment of hemodialysis patients with hyperphosphatemia, according to two presentations on Nov. 2 at the American Society of Nephrology 35th annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Treatment with this noncalcium, nonaluminum phosphate binder in a chewable tablet formulation reportedly reduced deaths among kidney hemodialysis patients by 50%. “About 50% to 60% of patients on chronic hemodialysis do not have adequate phosphorus control; they have high phosphorus levels,” presenter William Finn, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says in a news release. “I think this drug, Fosrenol, or drugs like it will become the preferred phosphate binders.”
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