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Factors affecting sodium determinations with direct potentiometry were assessed in 15 patients on dialysis to verify if the method allows measuring the effective gradient of ionic activity of Na between plasma water and dialysate, thus to calculate its transfer by diffusion and its net balance of the session. As expected, changes in the dialysate sodium activity were related to changes in the bicarbonate...