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Do you recommend taking any unique approaches to managing patients with persistent hypertension following bilateral renal artery stenting?
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Do you recommend bedtime administration of antihypertensives in patients who exhibit nondipping on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring?
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How do you manage patients blood pressures while on anti-angiogenic TKIs?
Do you insist on ambulatory/home blood pressures to rule in/out white coat hypertension? Does your practice have a system to log patients' BPs to supp...
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What is the optimal approach to treat isolated diastolic hypertension?
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Do you recommend increasing dietary potassium intake for blood pressure management in non-CKD patients with hypertension?
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Would you recommend delaying left heart catheterization until development of ESKD in a patient with CKD Stage 5 and stable coronary artery disease given concern for contrast-induced nephropathy?
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Do you recommend continuing SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with diabetic kidney disease and congestive heart failure who have been taking the medication for several years and later develop end stage kidney disease?
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Do you recommend checking urine sodium 2 hours after loop diuretic administration to determine the need for dose adjustment in a patient with acute decompensated heart failure?
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What is a reasonable blood pressure goal for refractory HTN in the geriatric population?
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Do you recommend noninvasive testing or coronary angiography as the initial test for pre-kidney transplant evaluation of an asymptomatic patient older than 50 years of age with ESKD secondary to diabetic nephropathy and no known history of CAD?
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Would you consider adding an SGLT2 inhibitor to augment diuresis in patients with worsening renal function presenting with acute decompensated heart failure and AKI on CKD?
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For which patients do you prioritize ambulatory blood pressure monitoring over self-measured blood pressure?
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Would you recommend giving N-acetylcysteine in addition to holding diuretics in a patient with chronic kidney disease and mild hypervolemia who is planned to have a contrast study?
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Do you use tolvaptan for management of hyponatremia related to heart failure given the side effect profile and lack of mortality benefit seen in a previous trial?
The EVEREST Outcome trial (Konstam et al., PMID 17384437)
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How do you manage anticoagulation bridging for outpatient ESKD patients given concerns for bleeding risk with enoxaparin in this population?
Would you bridge with enoxaparin 0.7 mg/kg/day in an ESKD patient, as described in a previous retrospective study (Pon et al., PMID: 24718051)?
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How do you manage calcium and vitamin D supplementation in patients with sarcoidosis on chronic steroids?
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Papers discussed in this category

JAMA, 2016-06-28
Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in Adults Aged ≥75 Years: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA, 2019-02-12
Effect of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control on Probable Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979), 2017 Nov 13
2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
The New England journal of medicine, 2018-02-15
Outcomes after Angiography with Sodium Bicarbonate and Acetylcysteine.
The New England journal of medicine, 2015 Sep 17
Empagliflozin, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes.
The New England journal of medicine, 2020 Sep 24
Dapagliflozin in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

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