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What is your approach to weaning dialysis in a patient with AKI on CKD and CHF who now has resolved AKI but a history of recurrent episodes of decompensated heart failure?
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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
My preference would be to keep them on dialysis. If the serum creatinine is really getting toward the normal range and urine output is good, I would just stop dialysis for a week and give them diuretics to see if they can do without dialysis. However in patients with creatinine levels in the higher ...