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A 23 year old female presents to the medical receiving department with a 48 h history of profuse diarrhoea and vomiting. Clinically she appears dehydrated. Her serum creatinine is 62 μmol/L and her blood urea 14.3 mmol/L. Her potassium is 3.4 mmol/L and her bicarbonate 22 mmol/L.
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Fairweather, J., Findlay, M., Isles, C. (2020). Structure and Function of the Kidney. In: Clinical Companion in Nephrology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38320-6_1
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