if you also think, when someone has increased CO2 (as in this patient) they have respiratory ACIDOSIS right...so increased blood pH cannot be the right answer.
Also, compensatory mechanism for respiratory acidosis happens in three ways.
can anyone please explain why option E which is increased in Urinary pH is not the correct answer. becasue hydrogen wasting is also a form of correcting respiratory acidosis.
The easiest way I think of to see this is: 1) You are retaining a lot of CO2 2) The principal way in which we find CO2 in blood is as HCO3 3) You have a lot of HCO3
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emphysema leads to CO2 trapping leading to increase paCO2 in the blood, which gives you a respiratory acidosis Proper renal compensation will increase bicard reabs and decrease excretion- giving you increased bicarb in the blood