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10. Can azotemia result from dehydration?

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Dehydration as a result of failure to ingest fluids or fluid losses from diarrhea are the most likely causes of prerenal azotemia, whereas sepsis, nephrotoxins, a congenital malformation, or poor perfusion may result in organ dysfunction.

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