Sunnybrook: MGR: If Some RAAS Blockade is Good for the Kidneys, Surely More is Better?

MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS

Wednesday, June 1, 2011
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

R.S. McLaughlin Lecture Theatre, Room EG-61

If Some RAAS Blockade is Good for the Kidneys,
Surely More is Better?

Sheldon Tobe, MD, FRCPC

Division of Nephrology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Objectives

1.      Describe the relative risk of death and renal death in high risk patients with various levels of proteinuria.

2.      Summarize the treatment options to manage high renal risk patients (low GFR and proteinuria).

3.      Provide new information on the risks and benefits to the heart and kidney from dual RAAS blockade with an ACEi and ARB compared to mono-therapy with either alone in high renal risk.

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