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Do you use terlipressin for patients with hepatorenal syndrome who also have elevated blood pressures?

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Nephrology · Rush Medical College

There are those who would question HRS as a diagnosis if the patient had an elevated BP. Regardless, I believe its effect is related to BP so I would not use it in this situation.

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