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Do you recommend targeting a higher Kt/V in an ESKD patient on hemodialysis with pruritis and a Kt/V of 1.4?

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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
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I do not. I believe there is not good evidence to suggest more dialysis will help with ckd pruritis and in general slightly higher kt/v usually does not correlate well with actual clinical findings. A better study to be done would be to see if more frequent dialysis will help treat ckd pruritis.

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