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What Causes High Potassium And Urea Levels In A 62 Year Old?
Dear Doctor, My Father is 62 years old and amitted in the hospital ! He had a very High Potassium - 7.9 and Ureaanlysys was very high and Urea was 201 as per the report, they shifted him to the ICU and He was feeling better now the doctor Did the Dialisis to him and they say that his Kidney Size have reduced to 4.6 and its not functioning so they have started dialisis, please want to know is it curable by medicine or he should go for regular dialisis or can we go for a transplant.
Wed, 7 Sep 2016
it sounds that regular dialysis will be required as the kidney size is small. later on transplantation can be done.
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