ALB and renal osteodystrophy: Renal osteodystrophy is a multifactorial disorder of bone remodeling that frequently affects hemodialysis patients.3 In the last few years different hemodialysis schedules have been proposed as alternatives to improve the dialysis treatment.20 In this setting, short duration daily hemodialysis has been reported to improve quality of life, increase hematocrit and albumin, and allow easier control of blood pressure.11,13 The effect of this hemodialysis regime upon the bone disease itself, however, has not been addressed before.