KROK 1 2008 – Question 95 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
Examination of a man who had been working hard under higher temperature of the environment revealed abnormal quantity of blood plasma proteins. What phenomenon is the case?
- A. Paraproteinemia
- B. Relative hyperproteinemia
- C. Absolute hyperproteinemia
- D. Dysproteinemia
- E. Absolute hypoproteinemia
Hint
Consider what heavy sweating in the heat does to plasma water, and whether the total amount of protein in the body has changed or only its concentration.
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