KROK 1 Stomatology 2014 – Question 99 · KROK (Dentistry)
A 23-year-old patient with diabetes has hyperglycemia at the rate of 19 mmol/l which is clinically manifested by glucosuria, polyuria, polydipsia. Which of the listed below mechanisms is responsible for the development of glycosuria?
- A. Exceedance of the glucose renal threshold
- B. Polyuria
- C. Tissue dehydration
- D. Non-enzymatic glycosylation of proteins
- E. Polydipsia
Hint
Think about how much glucose the proximal tubule carriers can reabsorb and what happens when the filtered load becomes greater than that.
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