Sepsis: a cause of aluminum release from tissue stores associated with acute neurological dysfunction and mortality
Davenport, A.; Williams, P.S.; Roberts, N.B.; Bone, J.M.
Clinical Nephrology 30(1): 48-51
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0301-0430 PMID: 3208458 Document Number: 320282
We report six cases of patients with renal failure and exposure to aluminum who developed septicemia. In all cases the serum aluminum increased markedly. This may have contributed to the neurological dysfunction seen in five, and the deaths of four of the patients. We suggest that the rise in serum aluminum was due to the release of tissue-bound aluminum, resulting in an increase in free, diffusable aluminum and that this jeopardized both neurological function and immunocompetence.