From your reading of Mrs. Joaquin's history and physical, what signs and symptoms did she have that correlate with her chronic kidney disease?
What will be an ideal response?
• Anorexia
• N/V
• 4 kg weight gain in the past 2 weeks
• Edema in extremities, face, and eyes
• Malaise
• Progressive SOB with 3-pillow orthopnea
• Pruritus
• Muscle cramps
• Inability to urinate
• Declining GFR
• Increasing creatinine and urea concentrations
• Elevated serum phosphate
• Normochromic, normocytic anemia
• Yellow-brown cast to skin
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