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If liver is not making the urea cycle, so then bun should increase?
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Will decrease: The urea cycle makes the urea. The "bun" measures urea. Drop in the BUN occurs in liver failure as long as the kidneys are okay, but once this is happening, the fact that the liver is failing is already obvious.
Answered 6/10/2014
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