Endocrinology

Chronic kidney disease

Questions discussed in this category

Would you recommend the use of an ACE inhibitor to patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus who are normotensive but have persistent moderate proteinuria?

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How do you approach vitamin D supplementation in patients with chronic kidney disease, given the findings that vitamin D2 supplementation may lead to decreased conversion of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3?

Batacchi et al., PMID 28768705

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Given the cardioprotective and renoprotective effects of SGLT2 inhibitors, should we consider administering to patients with well controlled type 1 diabetes despite the risk of DKA?

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Are recurrent UTIs a contraindication to SGLT2i use?

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Would you stop denosumab in a patient with chronic kidney disease if they develop asymptomatic hypocalcemia after the injection?

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How do you approach managing patients with diabetic kidney disease and proteinuria who develop hypoglycemia after initiation of a SGLT2 inhibitor?

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Do you recommend stopping a SGLT2i indefinitely if a patient with chronic kidney disease and diabetes develops euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis?

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Are you offering GLP-1 agonists to patients with CKD and diabetes mellitus?

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Would you recommend switching a diabetic CKD patient on oral semaglutide to the subcutaneous form since the benefits in CKD have primarily been reported in studies using subcutaneous GLP-1 receptor agonists?

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In which patients with chronic kidney disease and low 25-OH vitamin D levels do you prefer weekly ergocalciferol to daily cholecalciferol supplementation?

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How do you approach treatment of osteoporosis in patients with CKD who develop a fragility fracture while on denosumab?

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How do you approach prophylaxis against glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis in patients with end-stage renal disease on dialysis?

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Papers discussed in this category

Kidney international, 2022 Nov

Executive summary of the KDIGO 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes Management in Chronic Kidney Disease: an update based on rapidly emerging new evidence.

Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association, 2023 Jan 18

The rationale, design and baseline data of FLOW, a kidney outcomes trial with once-weekly semaglutide in people with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

Cardiovascular diabetology, 2024 Feb 08

Cardiorenal effectiveness of empagliflozin vs. glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists: final-year results from the EMPRISE study.

The New England journal of medicine, 2024 May 24

Effects of Semaglutide on Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 2013-03

Serum concentrations of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D2 and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in response to vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 supplementation.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2017-09-07

Effects of Vitamin D2 Supplementation on Vitamin D3 Metabolism in Health and CKD.

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