A 55-year-old female has undiagnosed hypertension.She presents to her primary care provider reporting impaired vision and chronic edema.Lab tests reveal that she also has renal insufficiency.While planning care,the nurse realizes the most likely cause for these findings is:
A) Clotting and gangrene
B) Free radical injury and cell toxicity
C) End-organ damage
D) Hypertrophy and hyperplasia

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The patient is experiencing end-organ damage,as indicated by renal insufficiency.
The patient is not experiencing gangrene,but end-organ damage.
The patient is experiencing end-organ damage; it is not due to the formation of free radicals.
Hypertrophy and hyperplasia could develop,but the cause of the patient's symptoms is end-organ damage.

A 55-Year-Old Female Has Undiagnosed Hypertension