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HELP!!!!!!

anyone telling me why there is polyuria in hypokalemia????
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  #2

hypokalemia can cause nephrogenic diabetes insipidus...rest you can make out my friend, same will be the case with hypercalcemia, conn's syndrome etc.
enjoy your prep. grin

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ssrpk wrote:
hypokalemia can cause nephrogenic diabetes insipidus...rest you can make out my friend, same will be the case with hypercalcemia, conn's syndrome etc.
enjoy your prep. grin

just adding that is doing so by damaging renal kidney tubules---> so they become refractory to ADH( if you want call it a Rec. probl), this is called vacuolar nephropathy !
And yes, i subscribe, enjoy your prep ! wink

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thanks a lot......gringrin







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