Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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dialysis disequilibrium syndrome

nausea, vomiting, and hypertension, occasionally with convulsions, developing within several hours after starting hemodialysis for renal failure; apparently caused by too rapid removal of urea from the extracellular fluid compartment, with movement of water into cells, and cerebral edema.


 

 

 

 

 

 



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