Do you recommend avoiding ESAs in ESKD patients with heart failure who require a left ventricular assist device?
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Do you recommend avoiding ESAs in ESKD patients with heart failure who require a left ventricular assist device?
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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
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I have not had such a patient as of yet but my sense would be to give them ESAs. We want to keep the Hgb above a certain level and avoid blood transfusions. The most logical way to accomplish that would be an ESA.
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