A 68-year-old woman with heart failure presents with tahycardia, S3 heart sound, and basilar crackles bilaterally. Blood pressure is 90/68mm Hg; BuN is 58 mg;dL, creatine is 2.4 mg/dL. This clinical presentation is ost consistent with:
A. prerenal azotemia
B. acute glomerulonephritis
C. tubular necrosis
D. postrenal azotemia
Answer: A. prerenal azotemia
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