Upon her visit to the primary care provider's office, a female client presents with 14 pounds of additional weight since her visit 3 weeks ago. her lower extremities are quite swollen, and her facial features are puffy. the provider prescribes a diuretic and requests a follow-up visit in 3 days. two days later, the client contacts the office and is so dyspneic that she is hard to understand over the phone. an ambulance is dispatched, and she is admitted to the hospital for rapid diuresing. which diuretic will most likely be the initial drug of choice?
a. loop diuretic
b. thiazide
c. potassium-sparing diuretic
d. osmotic diuretic

A. Loop diuretic.

Explanation:

Henle, a portion of a nephrin which function is to create a concentration gradient in the medulla of the kidney.

Her 14 pounds of additional weight and her swollen lower extremities indicate that she is retaining liquids and a diuretic should be prescribed. Loop diuretics will help her to a decrease in interstitial hypertonicity and reduced water reabsorption.

does it have options?

this disease is :

* endemic (present in a defined area that is a village)

* a bacterial infection (treated with antibiotic)

* communicable by contact (by the hands)

manu-porterage is the most common mode of transmission, it transmits germs from one individual to another via the hands. this concerns infections of exogenous origin.

endemic disease, or endemic disease, refers to a disease that is constantly present in a given population, often tied to a specific geographic origin, as opposed to a pandemic that is not a sporadic disease.

antibiotics are molecules that have the property of killing (bactericidal) or limiting the spread (bacteriostatic) of bacteria.