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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

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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