Introduction to Human Disease: Pathophysiology for Health Professionals 6th Edition by Agnes Loeffler,Michael Hart

Exercise 5

Which of the following patients is most likely to require long-term renal replacement therapy (dialysis)?
A) A 21-year-old man who had a kidney removed for recurrent pyelonephritis caused by unilateral vesicoureteral reflux
B) A 68-year-old man with kidney cancer
C) A 72-year-old woman with diabetes and poorly controlled hypertension
D) A 7-year-old with minimal change disease
E) A 52-year-old who experienced acute tubular necrosis after severe blood loss in a motor vehicle accident