Summer.Thunder
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45 year old man, dialysis, chronic renal failure, receives erythropoietin therapy, history of type 1 diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, well controlled hypertension,
exacerbation of which will occur
answer: hypertension
why not chronic renal infufficiency?
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| jean robert
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Erythropoietin increase the RBC mass----------->Increase viscosity-----------------> Peripheral vasculature more resistant ( TPR is directly proportional to viscosity of blood) -----------> Final event , exacerbation of Hypertension.
Correct me if i m wrong
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