Author Question: Immediately following renal transplantation, energy needs a. are lower than normal. b. are ... (Read 22 times)

meagbuch · **on:** Aug 2, 2018

Immediately following renal transplantation, energy needs

a. are lower than normal.
b. are higher than normal.
c. fluctuate from day to day.
d. depend on nutritional status before sur-gery.

Question 2

Patients with diabetes mellitus and chronic renal failure who are treated using peritoneal dialysis may have difficulty controlling their diabetes because

a. insulin is lost into the dialysate.
b. glucose is absorbed from the dialysate.
c. the combined food restrictions are so complex.
d. peritoneal dialysis causes taste changes and food aversions.

aham8f · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B
Immediately after a renal transplant, energy needs are higher than normal because of the stress from surgery and catabolism. They do not generally fluctuate from day to day and do not depend on nutritional status before surgery.

Answer to Question 2

B
Peritoneal dialysis may cause difficulty with metabolic control for patients with diabetes mellitus because glucose is absorbed from the dialysate. Loss of insulin into the dialysate is not a problem. Combined food restrictions are somewhat complex, but do not make control of blood glucose levels more difficult. All patients with renal disease experience taste changes and food aversions, but these do not necessarily affect control of diabetes.