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1
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Most common nephrotoxic cause of ATN

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Radiologic contrast dye

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Tx of ATN

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Dialysis, but after tx of shock and organ failure

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Two options for quick tx of Hyperkalemia

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IV Calcium Gluconate, IV Insulin + Glucose

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ATN with Vacuolization and Calcium Oxalate

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Ethylene Glycol

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Common source of hematogenous infection leading to pyelonephritis

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Central Venous Catheter - Staph Aureus

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Male-Female preponderance of Pyelonephritis

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Males under one, females b/t 1 and 50

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Presence of a few renal cortical cysts is clinically significant

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No, common finding in older adults with no clinical signficance

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5
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Mutations in AD (Adult) PCKD

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Polycystin-1 or -2

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Region of kidney most susceptible to ischemia

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Outer medulla

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Kidney injury caused by Rhabdomyolysis

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Myoglobin precipitates in renal tubules causing ATN

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New-onset azotemia w/ oliguria, fever, skin rash, and especially eosinophilia suggests

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Drug-induced acute interstitial nephritis

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Prognosis for AR PCKD

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Immediate untreatable respiratory failure at birth

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Potassium over __ is a medical emergency

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7 mMol/L

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T/F: Biopsy is often needed to dx etiology of AKI

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False, unlike Nephrotic and Nephritic syndromes

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As injury crosses line of irreversibility in ANT, the cells

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undero coagulative necrosis and slough into the lumen (contributing to casts)

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Symptoms of ATN

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Anorexia progressing thru nausea to vomitting, along with pruritis and confusion

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10
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Ascending pyelonephritis in patients >1 is associated with

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Vesicoureteral Reflux

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When do patients with AD PCKD start getting symptoms? Is the progression of this disease rapid?

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30s, no gradual

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11
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Mutation in Fibrocystin

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AR (Childhood) PCKD

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12
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autosomal recessive diseases of cilia components leading to end-stage renal disease in children

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Nephronopthisis-Medullary Cystic Disease Complex

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Analgesic Nephropathy causes

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Chronic Interstitial Nephritis and Papillary Necrosis

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Which is reversible: ATN or Glomerular Necrosis

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ATN

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4 gross complications of Acute Pyelonephritis

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Pyenephrosis, Perinephric Abcess, Acute Papillary Necrosis, Scars

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Most common genetic cause of end stage renal disease in children

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Nephronopthisis-Medullary Cystic Disease Complex

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Gross changes in ATN

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Kidneys enlarged up to 30%, with pale cortex and congested medulla

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most common histopathologic counterpart to moderate-severe acute kidney injury

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ATN

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Acute Pyelonephritis produces what type of necrosis

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Liquefactive –> Abcessing

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Symptoms of ATN are the sames as symptoms of

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AKI

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Primary leukocyte in Acute Pyelonephritis

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Neutrophils

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Patients with Acute Pyelonephritis may have flank pain, with corresponding physical sign of

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Costovertebral Angle Tenderness

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Perinephric Abcess

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Necrotizing pyelonephritis infection spreads thru renal capsule into surrounding fat

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One of the earliers LM findings of ATN

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Loss of brush border and bleb formation

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Most common cause of ischemia leading to ATN

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Shock, especially septic

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Most common cause of ATN

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Ischemia (75%)

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28
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Prognosis for AD PCKD

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Avg patient needs dialysis or transplant at 50

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Why are GI hemorrhage and epistaxis common in ATN

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Platelets not functioning properly

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29
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Common symptoms of AD PCKD

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Flank pain or dragging sensation in the abdomen

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30
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What causes Myoglobin casts

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Necrosis of skeletal muscle (Rhabdomyolysis)

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30
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Abrupt impairment in renal fxn manifested by increased creatinine, BUN, and Oliguria

31
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Histology of ATN

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Blebbing, Vacuolization, Loss of BB, Flattening, Necrosis and Sloughing

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Why is the percent of AKI represented by ATN not known

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Rarely biopsied

33
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More diffuse gross pyelonephritis rather than foci indicates what route of infection

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Vesicoureteral Reflux

34
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Depressed cortical scars indicates what about Pyelonephritis

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Hematogenously spread chronic

35
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Why does AR (childhood) PCKD lead to immediate untreatable respiratory failure at birth

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Pulmonary Hypoplasia

36
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Diffuse vacuolated tubular cells with no glomeruli or tubules in field

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Renal Cell Carcinoma

37
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Most common cause of acute kidney injury

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Ischemia –> ATN

37
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Muddy Brown Granular Casts or Tubular Epithelial Casts are a diagnostic feature of ___ in up to ___ percent of cases

39
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Renal ischemia usually spares the

40
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Acute Pyelonephritis characteristically produces

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Intense neutrophilic infiltration w/ liquefactive necrosis leading to abcess formation

40
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Thyroidization

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Chronic Pyelonephritis

41
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Cysts in medulla, which generally do not impair renal fxn or effect prognosis of patient as whole

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Medullary Sponge Kidney is characterized by

42
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Mutation in AR PCKD

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Fibrocystin

42
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Genes mutated in Nephronopthisis-Medullary Cystic Disease Complex are __ components

43
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Enlarged kidney, Pale cortex, Congested Medulla

43
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Most specific cell type for Interstitial Nephritis

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Eosinophils

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Interstitial nephritis is either rich in ___ or ___

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Eosinophils and Neutrophils (Type 1), or Macrophages with Giant Cells and Granulomas (Type 4)

46
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Foci of pyelonephritis grossly means what route of infection

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Hematogenous

47
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Pyelonephritis essentially means

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bacterial infection of kidney

48
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Most common histopathologic counterpart of AKI

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Acute Tubular Necrosis

50
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Ascending Pyelonephritis in babies is associated with

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Congenital malformation of valves b/t ureters and bladder

51
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Most common cause of Intersitial Nephritis

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Immune-mediated reaction to medication

52
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Cortical hemorrhages

53
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Necrosis –> Liquefaction –> Abcesses

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Acute Pyelonephritis

54
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Mutations in Polycystin-1 or -2

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AD (Adult) PCKD

56
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Second most common cause of ATN after ischemia

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Nephrotoxins

57
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Small kidneys w/ numerous small cysts at corticomedullary junction and chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis and fibrosis

59
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Most common cause of Acute Pyelonephritis

61
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What presentation suggests drug-induced acute interstitial nephritis

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New-onset azotemia w/ oliguria, fever, skin rash, and especially eosinophilia

64
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BP in ATN

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Usually low, because usually caused by septic shock

64
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Key determinant of which ATN patients need dialysis

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Potassium (hyperkalemia)

65
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Baseline normal renal tubule histology

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Cuboidal cells with granular eosinophilic cytoplasm

66
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Pyenephrosis

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Infected pus fills and distends the renal calyces, pelvis, and ureter

67
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Presence of Small-moderate numbers of globally sclerotic glomeruli is clinicaly significant?

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No, common finding in older adults with no clinical signficance

68
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What causes Thyroidization? What condition has this?

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Fibrosis and tubules distended with inspissated urine, making them look like thyroid follicles; Chronic Pyelonephritis

69
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What percent of AIN is due to drug reactions

71
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Hematogenous pyelonephritis is most commonly due to

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Staph Aureus

72
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Prognosis for Acute Pyelonephritis

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Two regions of renal tubule most vulnerable to acute ischemic necrosis

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PST, Ascending Thick Limb

73
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Timeline of Intersitial Nephritis after expsoure to offending drug

74
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Good evidence that you’re in recovery phase after AKI

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Mitotic figures

75
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Urinalysis feature of ATN

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Muddy Brown Casts

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With chronic pyelonephritis, there is usually ___, primarily with __ and ___, primarily involving ___

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Usually inflammation, primarily involving lymphocytes and plasma cells, primarily involving the interstitium

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Recurring or chronic Pyelonephritis is associated with

81
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Gross pathology of Acute Pyelonephritis

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Dark red congestion; Areas of tan suppurative inflammation (some with necrosis, some becoming abcesses)

82
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What type of necrosis is seen in ATN

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Coagulative

83
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Area of dark blue in microscopic path of Renal Abcesses

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Nuclear debris from breakdown of dead cells (especially neutrophils)

85
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Electrolytes and Acid Base in ATN

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Hyperkalemia and Metabolic Acidosis; Sometimes Hyponatremia

86
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Is ATN reversible?

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Yes, because tubules can regenerate their epithelial cells

88
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Medullary Sponge Kidney is characterized by

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Cysts in medulla, which generally do not impair renal fxn or effect prognosis of patient as whole

89
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T/F: Most drug reactions cause interstitial nephritis

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False, but most intersitial nephritis is caused by drug reactions

90
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Myoglobin Casts indicate

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Rhabdomyolysis cause ATN - myoglobin precipitated in renal tubules

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Classic triad of Intersitial Nephritis

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Fever, rash, eosinophilia

93
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___ is a disease of chronic intersitial nephritis and papillary necrosis

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Analgesic Nephropathy

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Ethylene Glycol poisoing causes ATN with what 2 features

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Prominent cytoplasmic vacuolization and oxalate crystals

95
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Why does ATN cause cortical hemorrhages? Why are they triangular?

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Disease of intrarenal arteries that causes ischemia and then allows reperfusion

96
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Infiltrating cells in Acute vs Chronic Pyelonephritis

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Neutrophils vs Lymphocytes and Plasma Cells

97
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Fibrosis + Distended tubules w/ inspissated urine, making them look like thyroid follices

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Chronic Pyelonephritis

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