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Glomerular Diseases: Kidney Functions, the Nephron and Collecting Ducts, and Glomerular Filtration

A medical-surgical nursing deck on the kidney and glomerular disease. It opens with the kidney as a bean-shaped organ in the flanks and its homeostatic and excretory functions, then the nephron and collecting ducts - the afferent arteriole into the glomerular capillaries inside Bowman's capsule, the efferent arteriole into the peritubular capillaries, and the passage of the filtrate across the selectively permeable glomerular basement membrane to the tubules for reabsorption and secretion. It takes the glomerular filtration rate at 125 ml per minute and the balance between blood pressure and colloid osmotic pressure that drives it, and the clinical features, investigation and management of the glomerular diseases that follow when filtration fails.

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