“…The concept of overdialysis was born in 1985 when Gotch and Sargent, 3 in the Kt/V urea nomogram included in the Mechanistic Analysis of the National Cooperative Dialysis Study, described a “possible overdialysis zone.” One year later, Vincenzo Cambi and colleagues 4 suggested that excessive dialysis might be the explanation of the carpal tunnel syndrome observed frequently in the Tassin, France, unit where long dialysis was (and still is) used.…”