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How do you determine the optimal time to restart a diuretic in a patient with cirrhosis, ascites, and lower extremity edema who presented with acute kidney injury that resolved with IV albumin and holding diuretics?

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How do you approach restarting spironolactone and a loop diuretic in a patient with cirrhosis, ascites, and lower extremity edema who presented with AKI that resolved with IV albumin and holding diuretics?

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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
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Good question. It is tricky. Spironolactone can be resumed fairly quickly. With loop diuretics it is harder to resume them. If necessary, I would resume at lower dose and slowly uptitrate as needed with close monitoring. Ideally, it is better to do frequent paracentesis with albumin infusion than gi...

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