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Do you eventually stop urate-lowering therapy in gout patients with CKD who start hemodialysis?

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Rheumatology · Emory University
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Hemodialysis is an extremely effective serum urate lowering therapy (ULT). As such, whether or not to keep patients on other ULT depends on average serum uric acid levels, how often a patient is having flares, etc. From what I have seen, although some patients will have increased flares in the first...

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