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What is low blood volume called?

Low blood volume will cause low blood pressure, high heart rate as the heart tries to compensate. Eventually if the volume is low enough the person will go into hypovolemic shock.


What is Produced by kidney in a response to low blood pressure?

Urea


What cell in the kidney monitor low blood pressure?

The cells of the juxtaglomerular complex of the nephron. Granular cells in the kidney monitor alteration in blood pressure. If blood pressure falls and remains low, this specialized cells release the enzyme renin into the blood stream.


What does it mean if you have low blood volume?

Low blood volume means that you do not have the amount of blood that you should have in your body. This could mean that you only have half, or maybe even more. Low blood volume could mean you are losing blood somewhere.


What causes you to be low on iron and low on blood?

Low iron is most often simply due to low intake in the diet. Other than this, it may be low due to excessive iron loss, which can in turn be caused by blood loss e.g. due to menstruation. Being "low on blood", i.e. a low total blood volume can have entirely different causes. On the one hand, this can also be due to excessive blood loss, though this would require a large wound. On the other hand however, defects in the kidney's water retention mechanisms can lead to excessive loss of water in the urine and thereby reduction of the blood volume (and consequently increase in blood concentration).


What is the most likely effect of a deficiency of aldosterone?

dehydration, low blood volume, low blood pressure.


What Food to take for low blood volume?

Food rich in sugar can be taken to increase blood volume . And in market plasma volume expanders are also available like low molecular weight dextran which can increase blood plasma.


Will water intake effect human blood volume?

For the short term and with reasonable amounts of water, ingested water will increase blood volume only transiently. However if there is kidney or cardiac problems or in cases where massive amounts of water is ingested the increase in volume plus the decrease in osmolarity of the blood is fatal.


What causes low blood levels?

There are several possible causes for low blood protein levels. One is kidney failure, which results in the blood proteins being lost in the urine. Another is liver failure, which results in insufficient quantities of blood proteins being produced. A third is severe recent hemorrhage, in which total blood volume was lost and only the fluid component has been replaced at the time of blood analysis.


What does low sodium and low chloride blood levels indicate?

It usually indicates kidney problems or over usage of a diuretic.


In what way does the composition of the blood in the renal artery differ from the renal vein?

The renal artery takes blood to the kidney. The renal vein takes blood away from the kidney. In the kidney, the waste product urea is filtered out of the blood. So the main difference is in the amount of urea in the blood: high in the renal artery and low in the renal vein.


What causes low pcv in blood?

PCV is the volume percentage of red blood cells in a mammals blood. When one's PCV is low, the cause is generally anemia.