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Do you recommend SGLT2i use for patients with chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, and polycystic kidney disease? 

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Nephrology · UCSF

While we cannot conscientiously recommend this YET, I do not think it is necessarily contraindicated. I would not use it in conjunction with tolvaptan, but I think the results of the UC Denver trial will be informative. It may indeed be as useful for PKD patients as in other CKD patients, including ...

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Nephrology · Umass Memorial Medical Center University Campus

Of course, more data is needed, but from the start, I would hold off for now, and would try other evidence-based interventions first (i.e., diet, strength training, anti-diabetics like metformin). Personally, I believe SGLT2i may be used along with GLP-1, however, we should wait for data to help us ...

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Nephrology · Nephrology Associates

The cornerstone of PKD treatment currently is to lower ADH levels. Given diuretic effects of SGLT2 inhibitors you risk increasing ADH levels leading to cyst progression. I personally recommend to avoid them in my ADPKD patients. The other issue is patients often are already dealing with polyuria fro...

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