ALB and stage 5 chronic kidney disease: Most recently, a relatively small study investigated whether prophylactic IV administration of 100 mL of 25% albumin compared with 100 mL of 0.9% saline was more effective in treating intradialytic hypotension and fluid removal in patients with acute renal failure or end-stage renal disease on dialysis whose serum albumin concentration was less than 30 g/L [54].