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What is your calcium level threshold for initiating targeted calcium lowering therapies for patients with an acute kidney injury believed secondary to renal vasoconstriction and volume depletion?

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Nephrology · UCLA

Treatment of hypercalcemia should be based on the severity of the symptoms rather than any arbitrary calcium level threshold. Therefore, if the AKI is due to hypercalcemia-induced renal vasoconstriction and volume depletion, then the hypercalcemia should be treated.

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