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I have spent way too much time obsessing over this question, and don't want to send the professor who wrote it any more than the two emails I have already sent him trying to understand the answer. Anyone interested in taking a stab at it?
Following a crush injury in an auto accident a 20-year-old male is forced to undergo a leg amputation. Owing to use of an antibiotic with significant renal toxicity to combat a post-surgical infection, he loses half his original number of functional nephrons. Six months later (all renal parameters are in steady state) which of the measurements of renal function would be least changed compared to before the accident?
A. creatinine excretion
B. creatinine clearance
C. Na+ excretion
D. plasma concentration of urea
E. glucose reabsorption
Following a crush injury in an auto accident a 20-year-old male is forced to undergo a leg amputation. Owing to use of an antibiotic with significant renal toxicity to combat a post-surgical infection, he loses half his original number of functional nephrons. Six months later (all renal parameters are in steady state) which of the measurements of renal function would be least changed compared to before the accident?
A. creatinine excretion
B. creatinine clearance
C. Na+ excretion
D. plasma concentration of urea
E. glucose reabsorption