A 63-year-old female with a past medical history significant for diabetes mellitus, cirrhosis, gout, and a 30-pack a year smoking history presents to the emergency room with chest pain revealing pericarditis in the echocardiogram, secondary to recently diagnosed end-stage renal disease. Physical examination reveals yellowish discoloration to the skin and sclera, multiple bruises, 2+ bilateral edema, and weakness lasting more than three weeks. Her medications include Glisten, a new drug for diabetes that causes ATP sensitive potassium channels to close, thereby releasing insulin. Her recent laboratory results are as follows: What is the correlation between her illnesses and the low vitamins (D, K, E, and A), renin, and aldosterone levels? 7. Which hormone would the body elevate in response to her low calcium levels? Why?
A 63-year-old female with a past medical history significant for diabetes mellitus,
cirrhosis, gout, and a 30-pack a year smoking history presents to the emergency room
with chest pain revealing pericarditis in the echocardiogram, secondary to recently
diagnosed end-stage renal disease. Physical examination reveals yellowish
discoloration to the skin and sclera, multiple bruises, 2+ bilateral edema, and weakness
lasting more than three weeks. Her medications include Glisten, a new drug for diabetes
that causes ATP sensitive potassium channels to close, thereby releasing insulin. Her
recent laboratory results are as follows:
What is the correlation between her illnesses and the low vitamins (D, K, E, and A), renin, and aldosterone levels?
7. Which hormone would the body elevate in response to her low calcium levels?
Why?
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