| a patient has both systemic lupus erthematosus, which has damaged her liver,
and insulin-dependent diabetes... which has damaged her kidneys. as the disease have progressed, the edema she experiences has worsened. why?
-liver damage prevents her from making suffiecient plasma proteins
- kidney daage allows some of her plasma protein to be excreted
-kidney damage allows olittle fluid to accumuate in the bowmans capsule |