2016 module exam Flashcards
Which structure is most anterior?
a) Renal vein
b) Renal artery
c) Renal pelvis
d) Renal sinus
a) Renal vein
What is the biological process that describes the primary function of mesangial
cells?
a) Hormone synthesis and secretion
b) Maintenance of GBM
c) Phagocytosis
d) Na/K secretion
c) Phagocytosis
Which of the following disorders is associated with renal cell carcinoma?
VHL
What mechanism activates thirst?
a) Hypertension
b) Hypovolemic hypernatremia
c) Isovolemic hyponatremia
d) ANP
b) Hypovolemic hypernatremia
Middle aged female hypotension w/ tachycardia, diarrhea, vomiting, BUN high,
creatinine high
a) Pyelonephritis
b) Obstruction
c) Pre-renal AKI
c) Pre-renal AKI
Which of the following would increase albumin urinary excretion rate?
a) Increased expression of sialoproteins in GFB
b) Increased expression of megalin in the PCT
c) Mild excerise
d) Decreased expression of nephrin in GFB
d) Decreased expression of nephrin in GFB
What increase GFR?
a) Decrease in bowmans capsule
b) Increase in MAP from 100 to 120
c) Nitric oxide
c) Nitric oxide
What happens after being on a low sodium diet for a few days
a) Increased expression of ENaC in PC
b) Cellular dehydration
c) Endocytosis of NCC in distal
a) Increased expression of ENaC in PC
61 yr female has abdominal pain for the last 5 years, mid-systolic click heard pver
the mitral area during physical examination, ultrasound shows enlarge kidney
a) Berry aneurysm
b) Liver fibrosis
c) Ischemia cardiomegaly
d) Pulmonary fibrosis
a) Berry aneurysm
What causes renin in afferent arteriole?
a) B agonist
b) Decreased Na delivered to collecting duct
c) Na/K ATPase
a) B agonist
What is the earliest manifestation in patients w/ diabetic nephropathy?
Microalbuminurea
35 yr lady presented w/ foul odor smell urine and tests shows leukocute esterase + What is most likely cause?
a) UTI
b) Tumor
c) Acute nephriti
a) UTI
20 yr female with bacterial to tonsillitis took ampicillin for 6 days and recovered. Later she developed rash and fever with low urine. Urine microscopy revealed RBCs with no casts or crystals?
a) Post strep
b) ATN
b) ATN
5 yr with hemorrhagic cystitis?
Adenovirus
What of the following features suggests renal failure that is acute rather than chronic?
a) Presence of anemia
b) Presence of normal function one month previously
c) Normal kidney size
b) Presence of normal function one month previously
What is characteristic membranoprolifrative nephropathy?
GBM duplication
What is the mechanism of hypocalcemia in CKD ( defecincy of vit D activation 1,25)
a) Decrease absorption of Ca in gut
b) Inhibit PTH
a) Decrease absorption of Ca in gut
A biopsy taken from an adult shows diffused thickened membrane with sub epithelial deposits, lab shows that blood nitrogen: normal, creatinine: high, 24 hours urea is high
What is the underlying antigen?
- Aso
- Collagen type 4
- PLA2R1
- PLA2R1
7 yr with hypercalciurea, what treats his condition?
- Loop diuretics
- Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
- Thiazide diuretics
- Potassium sparing diuretis
- Osmotic diuretics
- Thiazide diuretics
What is a characteristics of Ca reabsorption?
a) CaSR sense hypocalcemia
b) Passive reabsorption in TALH by solavant drag
c) Specific Ca channels on luminal membrane of PC
c) Specific Ca channels on luminal membrane of PC
Renal biopsy showed hyper cellularity, endocapillary proliferation, and leukocytes. What could be other findings?
a) High urine protein
b) Dysmorphic RBCs in urine
c) Leukocyte esterase 3+
b) Dysmorphic RBCs in urine
Which of the following not causes Acute interstisial nephritis?
a) Analgesics
b) Multiple myloma
c) Sarcoidosis
d) Urea crystals
e) Ischemia
e) Ischemia
Which is involved in multiply signalling pathway defect in TTC Ca channel?
a) PC1
b) PC2
c) Fibrocystin
d) Polyductin
b) PC2
What develops from metanephrons?
a) Collecting duct
b) DCT
b) DCT
Clearance of glucose if Px=3
PAH= 600 Creatinine = 110
a) Zero
b) 330
c) 110
d) 45
a) Zero
Child with cystinuria what predispose to form stone?
a) Cysteine insoluble in acidic PH
b) Cysteine insoluble in alkaline PH
a) Cysteine insoluble in acidic PH
Mistargeting of which increases the tendency to develop calcium oxalate?
a) Alanine-glycoxalate aminotransferase
Which one is not a secondary cause of HTN?
a) Cushing
b) Addison
c) Renal artery stenosis
d) PKD
b) Addison
24 yr male admitted for an upper UTI. Ultrasound of abdomen showed pyelonephritis with a large staghorn caliculi in the right kidney. On culture the organism was indole positive. Whats the most likely causative organism?
a) Staph saprophytics
b) Staph haemolytics
c) Proteus miabalis
d) Proteus valguris
d) Proteus valguris
28 yr old male with leukemia and was being treated chemotherapy, what will you find in urine analysis?
a) Uric acid crystals
b) Oval fat
c) RBC cast
d) Benz Jones protein
a) Uric acid crystals
Which of the following is more likely to cause pyelonephritis?
a) E.coli with K1 antigen
b) E.coli 0175
c) Enterotoxigenic E.coli
d) Enteroaggreggative E.coli
a) E.coli with K1 antigen
Surgeon ligated close to left renal vein what would be affected?
a) Spleen
b) Pancreas
c) Left testis
c) Left testis