
31 - Nephrotic Syndrome and Edema
The Curious Clinicians
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Is There an Over Fill Hypovolemia in Kidney Disease?
Some patients with nephrotic cindrome have elevated levels of a renin and and an aldosteron. And that suggests an increased ras tone. But not all patients actually meet this profile, suggesting there's something else going on. The over fill hypothesis basically states that the kidneys are sodium avid - they're just turned on constitutively.
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