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Are there instances when you continue phosphate binders for patients receiving CRRT?

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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
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Would be very unusual. First, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is so effective in lowering serum phosphorus concentration if done with the right dose that it is almost never needed to add a binder. Second, usually, patients on CRRT are no longer eating meals, and thus binders do not make ...

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