
# 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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