Results for “renal tubular acidosis”

A well 24-year-old woman has routine blood tests before starting a combined oral contraceptive. She takes no medication and her blood pressure is 112/70 mmHg. B…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 7-year-old boy has passed large volumes of urine and craved salty food since infancy, and he is small for his age. His blood pressure is 92/56 mmHg and he has…

Physiology · Foundations · middle twist

A 46-year-old man is found vomiting beside an open container of an automotive fluid. He has tachypnoea, flank pain and oliguria; arterial blood gas analysis sho…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 72-year-old man with diabetic kidney disease takes perindopril and spironolactone. He has a serum potassium concentration of 6.2 mmol/L (3.5–5.2), chloride 11…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 29-year-old woman has a plasma bicarbonate concentration of 15 mmol/L (reference 22–29 mmol/L) and a normal anion gap. Her urine pH is 6.2 during bicarbonate…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · middle twist

A 29-year-old man has progressive bone pain, proximal weakness and two atraumatic metatarsal fractures. Serum phosphate is 0.44 mmol/L (0.80–1.50), calcium is 2…

Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · niche

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic function of simple cuboidal epithelium?

Year 1 · Foundations · common