Chronic Renal Failure Patho ?

[Carrie_MTC]

I'm writing a patho paper on Chronic Renal Failure. Just wondering if anyone knows why the specific gravity becomes fixed at 1.010. None of my books explain why this happens, I would think it has to due with the fluid retention but not really sure.

[sherilyn321]

Try some of these:

http://pro2services.com/Lectures/Spring/RenalTests/renaltests.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=L0B-lKtvI_UC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=specific+gravity+becomes+fixed+at+1.010&source=bl&ots=MrFGU0n6ER&sig=jLbeEj1-IbWMEuWS8wwzzKYTFLY&hl=en&ei=MBhuS4HkOZ-ltgen2ayYBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=6WZrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=specific+gravity+becomes+fixed+at+1.010&source=bl&ots=29lMWQrmoi&sig=QuhPaQvpu_aCm40YnUkcKRwDT_w&hl=en&ei=MBhuS4HkOZ-ltgen2ayYBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=specific%20gravity%20becomes%20fixed%20at%201.010&f=false

[Carrie_MTC]

Thanks for your help, that answered my question:yeah: