Common Patterns of Water and Electrolyte Change in Injury, Surgery and Disease

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Abstract
Ureterointestinal Anastomosis Clinical setting and appearances. As with the polyuria of relieved obstructive uropathy, this pattern of electrolyte disorder (Fig. 17) is neither inevitable nor invariable. Many patients with the underlying pathology, in this case an anastomosis between one or both ureters and some portion of the lower gastrointestinal tract, do very well over a period of years with little detectable abnormality in renal function, either by x-ray study or biochemically. Particularly prominent among those who do well are children who have had ureterointestinal anastomosis for congenital anomalies of the lower urinary tract. Many adults also get along very . . .