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2. Explain how fluid shifts to form edema in the body?
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Edema is the physiological condition characterized by the accumulation of excessive interstitial fluid & this fluid shifts due to the increased capillary hydrostatic pressure as well as due to disruption of the physical structure of capillary microstructures/pores, more specifically in the microvascular membrane of the capillaries. Edema also includes the leakage of watery content from blood capillaries, as a result of increased blood vessel permeability referring the inflammation or due to obstruction of fluid clearance as well as developing the fluid retention. Other factors responsible for such fluid shifting are the fluid volume, disease condition, mechanical injury, trauma and levels of sodium and other ionic content of the fluid.

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