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Do you recommend holding ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and SGLT2 inhibitors for patients with chronic kidney disease and malignancy who are about to start high-dose intravenous methotrexate?

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Nephrology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

This is obviously an opinion-based question since there are no clinical data on this topic.

If a patient has risk factors for AKI (underlying CKD, advanced age, low body mass) then it may be reasonable to hold RAAS blockers prior to treatment and resume following the completion of that cycle of high...

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