PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Arjun Sekar
AU  - Taranpreet Kaur
AU  - Joseph V. Nally, Jr.
AU  - Hernan Rincon-Choles
AU  - Stacey Jolly
AU  - Georges N. Nakhoul
TI  - Phosphorus binders: The new and the old, and how to choose
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.85a.17054
DP  - 2018 Aug 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 629--638
VI  - 85
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/85/8/629.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/85/8/629.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2018 Aug 01; 85
AB  - In caring for patients with chronic kidney disease, it is important to prevent and treat hyperphosphatemia with a combination of dietary restrictions and phosphorus binders. This review describes the pathophysiology and control of hyperphosphatemia and the different classes of phosphorus binders with respect to their availability, cost, side effects, and scenarios in which one class of binder may be more beneficial than another.