Results for “collecting duct”

An 84-year-old man with prostate cancer and bone metastases is catheterised in the emergency department for painless retention that has built up over several we…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 19-day-old boy has vomited after most feeds for the past week. He is 9 per cent below his birth weight, lethargic, with dry mucous membranes and cool peripher…

Physiology · Foundations · middle twist

A 32-year-old woman has passed large volumes of pale urine for four months and drinks about eight litres of water each day, having decided this would improve he…

Physiology · Foundations · 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 healthy adult receives an intravenous glucose load. Plasma glucose is 12 mmol/L (reference 3.5–7.8 mmol/L), the measured glomerular filtration rate is 120 mL/…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · common