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#Question id: 12480


A patient’s one remaining kidney has moderate renal artery stenosis that reduces renal artery pressure distal to the stenosis to 85 mm Hg, compared with the normal level of 100 mm Hg. Which of the following is most likely decreased in this patient 2 weeks after the stenosis has occurred, assuming that his diet is unchanged?

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. Efferent arteriolar resistance
  2. Afferent arteriolar resistance
  3. Renin secretion
  4. Sodium excretion rate