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Anuria

Ok, so my patient is in ESRD and recently stopped producing urine all together - anuric, anuresis....

I'm only asking this question because I have stupidly left my medical dictionary book in school and am off for the next two weeks - STUPID STUPID STUPID me! But anyway - my question is, I understand she is in end stage renal disease so obviously her kidneys are not functioning. She has been going for hemodialysis for the past year... what happens to the urine?? Maybe that sounds like a stupid question - but I'm curious, any fluids she takes in or any food she eats, how is this excreted now?

Am i making sense in my question?

I guess I'm just not really familiar in the specifics of End stage Renal disease nor am I familiar with anuria because this is the first patient I've had with either. If any of you can reference a site to look at or some other information it would be great. I've been searching online and can't seem to find anything really useful except the definition of both.

THANKS!

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