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# 398:Live! From SHM: Inpatient Cirrhosis Management

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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How to Stop Dialysis and Support Bloodflow to the Kidneys

The administration of albumin for hepato renal syndrome with acute kidney injury. Often what's happening is these people have low blood pressure systemically and that is also driven by portal hypertension. So octreatide is a somatostatin analog that will help shunt blood back into the circulation towards the kidneys out of the portal system. And then mididrin to support the peripheral blood pressure, right? So essentially an oral presser.

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