Would you recommend desmopressin for a patient with ESKD receiving thrice weekly hemodialysis who is hospitalized for a persistent gastrointestinal bleed not amenable to usual interventional treatment strategies?

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Yes. I always give desmopressin in patients with uncontrolled bleeding and uremia to fix the bleeding time abnormality. In this situation, the benefits should out way the possible harms.

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at Mayo Clinic Nephrology And Hypertension
Thank you for both this interesting question and e...

at Valley Nephrology Associates
You may be right. Uremia today is very different f...

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