
#384 Updates in Chronic Kidney Disease with Dr. Joel Topf
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
Chronic Kidney Disease - The Bicarb at 20 Doesn't Mean Metabolic Acidosis
There's been a few clinical trialters, two ones that are very frequently referenced. Both of them just gave patients oral bicarbonate for patients that had metabolic acidosis and CKD. And both of them resulted in remarkable slowing of the progression of chronic kidney disease. Really it produced people going on dialysis. This is kind of the gold, the golden ring that we're reaching for in the treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease.
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