KROK 1 2007 – Question 6 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 4 y.o. child with signs of durative proteinic starvation was admitted to the hospital. The signs were as follows: growth inhibition, anemia, edemata, mental deficiency. Choose a cause of edemata development:
- A. Reduced synthesis of lipoproteins
- B. Reduced synthesis of hemoglobin
- C. Reduced synthesis of globulins
- D. Reduced synthesis of glycoproteins
- E. Reduced synthesis of albumins
Hint
Edema develops when the force that keeps fluid inside capillaries falls; think which plasma protein fraction, made by the liver from dietary amino acids, provides most of that force.
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