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Nephro Study Guide

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Anion Gap

Anion Gap. Anion Gap. Represents unmeasured anions in plasma such as, lactate, ketoacids , phosphate, and other organic anions. It is used mainly in diagnosing different causes of metabolic acidosis. Anion Gap. An increase in the AG is most often due to increase in unmeasured anions

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Anion Gap

Anion Gap. represents the concentration of all the unmeasured anions in the plasma concentrations are expressed in units of milliequivalents /liter ( mEq /L) NV: 8-16 mEq /L. Major Clinical Uses of the Anion Gap . To signal the presence of a metabolic acidosis and confirm other findings

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