a patient has both systemic lupus erthematosus, which has damaged her liver,

Priss121 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 12:18 AM

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

ldd3017 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 12:19 AM

I would guess b

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