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3rd Shifting Kidneys, Lower Urinary Tract and Male Urinary Tract Flashcards

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Four basic morphologic components of the kidneys

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Glomeruli
Interstitium
Tubules
Blood vessels

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biochemical abnormality that refers to elevation of the BUN and creatinine levels

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Azotemia

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Azotemia + clinical signs and symptoms

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Uremia

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Examples of uremic symptoms

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anorexia, lethargy, dec mental acuity, coma

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Nephritic syndrome is a glomerular disease dominated by the acute onset of what symptoms?

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▪grossly visible hematuria
▪mild to moderate proteinuria
▪hypertension

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Examples of diseases associated/presenting with Nephritic syndrome

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  1. Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis
  2. Rapidly progressive (Crescentic) glomerulonephritis
  3. Goodpasture’s syndrome
  4. Glomerulonephritis with vasculitis
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Characteristic symptoms in Nephrotic Syndrome

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Heavy proteinuria (>3.5 g/day), hypoalbuminemia, severe edema, hyperlipidemia and lipiduria

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Examples of diseases associated/presenting with Nephrotic syndrome

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  1. Lipoid nephrosis
  2. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
  3. Membranous glomerulosclerosis
  4. Diabetic nephropathy
  5. Amyloidosis
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Oliguria or anuria and recent onset of azotemia

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Acute renal failure

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Prolonged signs and symptoms of uremia

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Chronic renal failure

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End result of chronic renal parenchymal diseases

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Chronic renal failure

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Characteristic symptoms of Renal tubular defects

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polyuria, nocturia and electrolytes disorders

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examples of diseases presenting with renal tubular defects

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  1. Inherited (familial nephrogenic diabetes, cystinuria, renal tubular acidosis)
  2. Acquired (lead nephropathy)
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Characteristic symptoms of UTI

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Bacteriuria, Pyuria

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Characteristic symptoms of Nephrolithiasis

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Severe spasm of pain (renal colic) and hematuria

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What disease is characterized by Nephritic symptoms with a rapid decline in GFR (hours-days)

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Rapid Progressive (Crescentic) Glomerulonephritis

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major cause of death from renal diseases

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Chronic Renal Failure

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4 stages of renal disease

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  1. Diminisehed renal reserve (50%GFR)
  2. Renal insufficiency (20%-50% GFR)
  3. CRF (20%-25% GFR)
  4. End stage renal Disease (<5% GFR)
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What are the symptoms of Renal insufficiency (Stage II)

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polyuria, hypertension, nocturia, anemia, azotemia

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What are the symptoms of CRF (Stage III)

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Uremia, edema, metabolic acidosis, hyperkalemia

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most common causes of Chronic Kidney Disease

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Chronic Glumerulonephritis

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What are the clinical manifestations of Glomerular Disease

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Nephritic, Nephrotic, RPGN, CRF, isolated urinary abnormalities

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Histologic alterations in glomerular diseases (4)

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  • Hypercellularity
  • Basement Membrane Thickening
  • Hyalinization/Hyalinosis
  • Sclerosis
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Proliferating parietal cells and infiltrating leukocytes

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Crescents (Present in hypercellularity)

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Deposition of amorphous electron dense materials in the endothelial or epithelial side of the basement membrane

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Basement Membrane Thickening

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Hyalinization of glomerulus is a common feature in what disease?

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Focal segmental glomerolusclerosis

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Accumulation of extracellular collagenous matrix, either confined to the mesangial areas (DM) or involving the capillary loops

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Sclerosis

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Pathogenesis of Glomerular Injury (How are they injured?)

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ANTIBODY-MEDIATED INJURY
CYTOTOXIC ANTIBODIES
CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNE INJURY
ACTIVATION OF ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY

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Forms of Antibody Mediated Glomerular Injury:

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  1. Intrinsic (Immune complex deposition involving intrinsic and in situ renal antigens)
  2. Extrinsic (Circulating Immune complex Glumerulonephritis)
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Examples “Immune complex deposition involving intrinsic and in situ renal antigens” form of glomerular injury

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  1. Heymann Nephritis (granular)
  2. Ab against planted Antigens (granular)
  3. Anti GBM Ab-induced GN (linear)
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Granular immune deposits in the visceral epithelium

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Heymann Nephritis

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Ab to component of the GBM

Masugi or nephrotoxic nephritis

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Anti GBM Ab-induced GN

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what happens to:

a. Cationic immunogens
b. Anionic immunogens
c. Neutral immunogens

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a. cross the BM and are deposited in the subepithelium
b. trapped subendothelially or NOT nephritogenic
c. deposited in the mesangium

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Mediators of Glomerular Cellular Injury

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Celllular mediators:
Neutrophils, T cells, Platelets, mesangial cells
Soluble mediators:
Complement, eicosanoids, cytokines, chemokines, coagulation system

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Two major histologic characteristics of progressive renal damage:

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  1. Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)

2. Tubulointersititial fibrosis

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develop proteinuria even if the primary dse was non glomerular

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Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)

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adaptive change that occurs in the unaffected glomeruli of diseased kidneys; Compensatory hypertrophy of the remaining glomeruli

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Glomerulosclerosis

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in Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis, what is the cause of direct injury to and activation of tubular cells

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Proteinuria

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Primary Glomerulopathies (8)

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 Nephritic syndrome
 Nephrotic syndrome
 Membranous nephropathy
 Minimal-change disease
 HIV-associated nephropathy
 RPGN
 FSGS
 MPGN
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2 types of Acute Proliferative GN

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  1. Poststreptococcal GN

2. Post-infectious GN

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Syndrome associated with severe glomerular injury ;NOT a specific etiologic form of glomerulonephritis

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RPGN (Crescentic GN)

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Rapid and progrssive loss of renal function associated with severe oliguria and signs of nephritic syndrome

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RPGN (Crescentic GN)

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Enlarged kidneys with petechial hemorrhages on its cortical surface

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RPGN (Crescentic GN)

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Type 1 RPGN characteristics:

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  • Anti-GBM Antibody
  • Antigen: noncollagenous portion of the α3 chain of collagen type IV
  • Linear deposits of IgG
  • C3 in the GBM
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Type 2 RPGN characteristics:

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  • Immune Complex deposition

- Granular pattern of staining

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Type 3 RPGN characteristics:

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  • Pauci-Immune
  • ANCA-associated
  • Lack of anti-GBM antibodies or immune complexes
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amount of massive proteinuria in Nephrotic syndrome

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Most common cause of nephrotic syndrome among adults

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Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

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Diffuse thickening of the glomerular capillary wall due to accumulation of electron dense, Ig containing deposits along the subepithelial side of the basement membrane

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Membranous Nephropathy

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Most frequent cause of nephrotic syndrome in children

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Minimal change disease

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Diffuse loss of foot processes (podocytes) in most glomeruli (“Fusion” of foot processes)

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Minimal change disease

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Cells of proximal tubules are often laden with lipid and protein which reflect tubular reabsorption of lipoproteins passing through diseased glomeruli

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Lipoid Nephrosis

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 Morphologic variant of FSGS; Retraction and/or collapse of the entire glomerular tuft, with or without additional FSGS lesions

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Collapsing Glomerulopathy

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Characteristic feature of Collapsing Glomerulopathy

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proliferation and hypertrophy of glomerular visceral epithelial cells

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Secondary form of FSGS

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RENAL ABLATION FSGS

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Striking focal cystic dilation of tubule segments

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HIV-associated Nephropathy

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Presence of large numbers of tubuloreticular inclusions within endothelial cells

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HIV-associated Nephropathy

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Proliferation is dominant in the mesangium but may involve the capillary loops

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MPGN or Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis

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Type 1 MPGN characteristics:

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  • Activation of both classical and alternative complement pathways
  • Granular pattern
  • Antigens are believed to be proteins derived from infectious agents such as hepatitis C and B viruses
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Type 2 MPGN characteristics:

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  • activation of the alternative complement pathway
  • Lamina densa of GBM – ribbon-like
  • Mesangial rings – characteristic circular aggregates In the mesangium
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ISOLATED URINARY ABNORMALITIES

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 IgA nephropathy (Berger’s disease)
 Hereditary nephritis
 Alport syndrome
 Thin basement membrane lesion (Benign Familial Hematuria)
 Chronic glomerulonephritis
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  • Presence of prominent IgA deposits in the mesangial regions
  • most common type of glomerulonephritis worldwide
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IgA nephropathy (Berger’s disease)

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Refers to a group of heterogeneous familial renal diseases associated primarily with glomerular injury

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Hereditary nephritis

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Hereditary nephritis (2)

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  1. Alport Syndrome

2. Thin basement membrane lesion

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Symptoms of Alport syndrome

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  • Nerve Deafness
  • Lens Dislocation
  • Posterior cataracts
  • Corneal Dystrophy
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  • Due to abnormal α3 (COL4A3), α4 (COL4A4), or α5 (COL4A5) chain of type IV collagen
  • X-linked
  • Basket-weave appearance of the GBM
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Alport Syndrome

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  • familial asymptomatic hematuria

- Mutations in genes encoding α3 or α4 chains of type IV collagen

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Thin basement membrane lesion

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  • Considered a pool of end-stage glomerular disease

- Obliteration of glomeruli, transforming them into acellular eosinophilic masses

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Chronic GN

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GLOMERULAR LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC DISEASES

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 Lupus Nephritis
 Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
 Bacterial Endocarditis–Associated Glomerulonephritis
 Diabetic Nephropathy
 Amyloidosis
 Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis
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Affects the arterioles – causing Hyalinizing Arteriolar Sclerosis

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Diabetic Nephropathy

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Three glomerular syndromes of Diabetic Nephropathy

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o Non-nephrotic proteinuria
o Nephrotic syndrome
o Chronic renal failure

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Fibrillary deposits in the mesangium and capillary tufts that resembles amyloid but does not stain with congo-red

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Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis

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Congo red-fibrillary amyloid deposits – present in the mesangium and capillary walls

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Amyloidosis

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Two major groups of TUBULAR AND INTERSTITIAL DISEASES

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  1. Acute Kidney Injury and Acute Renal Failure

2. Tubulointerstitial Nephritis

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Most common cause of acute renal failure

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Acute Kidney Injury and Acute Renal Failure

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Symptoms of the Maintenance phase of AKI/ATI

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a. Sustained decreases in urine output to 40-400 mL/day (oliguria)
b. salt and water overload
c. rising BUN
d. Hyperkalemia
e. Metabolic Acidosis
f. Other manifestations of Uremia

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relatively short lengths of tubules are affected, and straight segments of proximal tubules (PST) and ascending limbs of Henle’s loop (HL) are most vulnerable

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Ischemic AKI/ATI

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extensive necrosis is present along the proximal convoluted tubule segments (PCT) with many toxins (e.g., mercury), but necrosis of the distal tubule, particularly ascending HL, also occurs

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Toxic AKI/ATI

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Diffuse interstitial, predominantly, mononuclear inflammatory infiltrate; Tubules are separated by inflammation and edema

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Tubulointerstitial Nephritis

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Renal disorder affecting the tubules, interstitium, and renal pelvis

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Pyelonephritis

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most common cause of clinical pyelonephritis

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Ascending infection

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Complications of Acute Pyelonephritis

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o Papillary necrosis
o Pyonephrosis
o Perinephric abscess

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2 forms of Chronic Pyelonephritis

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o Reflux nephropathy

o Chronic obstructive pyelonephritis

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Unusual and relatively rare form of chronic pyelonephritis; Accumulation of foamy macrophages intermingled with plasma cells, lymphocytes, polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and occasional giant cells
yellow-orange nodules

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XANTHOGRANULOMATOUS PYELONEPHRITIS

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Vascular diseases of the Kidneys

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 Benign Nephrosclerosis
 Malignant hypertension (Accelerated Nephrosclerosis)
 Renal Artery Stenosis
 Thrombotic microangiopathies
 Atherosclerotic Ischemic Renal Disease
 Atheroembolic Renal Disease
 Sickle Cell Disease Nephropathy
 Diffuse cortical necrosis
 Renal Infarcts
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  • Sclerosis of the renal arterioles and small arteries

- Reduction in functional renal mass caused by glomerulosclerosis and chronic tubulointerstitial injury

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Benign Nephrosclerosis

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Long-standing benign hypertension with eventual injury to the arteriolar walls or the initiating injury may spring de novo from arteritis, a coagulopathy, or some injury causing acute exacerbation of the hypertension

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Malignant hypertension (Accelerated Nephrosclerosis)

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  • Gross: “flea-bitten” appearance

- Onion-skinning because of its concentric appearance (hyperplastic)

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Malignant hypertension (Accelerated Nephrosclerosis)

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Most common cause of renal artery stenosis (70% of cases) is _____________ at the origin of the renal artery

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occlusion by atheromatous plaque

90
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Congenital Anomalies of the Kidneys

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o Agenesis of the kidney
o Hypoplasia
o Ectopic Kidneys
o Horseshoe Kidneys

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Due to an abnormality in metanephric differentiation
-Persistence in the kidney of abnormal structures—cartilage, undifferentiated mesenchyme, and immature collecting ductules

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MULTICYSTIC RENAL DYSPLASIA

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term used to describe dilation of the renal pelvis and calyces associated with progressive atrophy of the kidney due to obstruction of the outflow of urine

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Hydronephrosis

93
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increased urinary concentration of the stones’ constituents, such that it exceeds their solubility (supersaturation)

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UROLITHIASIS (RENAL CALCULI/STONES)

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Staghorn calculi

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MAGNESIUM AMMONIUM PHOSPHATE

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Benign Tumors of the kidneys

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Renal papillary adenoma
Renal fibroma or hamartoma (Renomedullary interstitial cell tumor)
Angiomyolipoma
Oncocytoma

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Malignant Tumors of the kidneys

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Renal cell carcinoma

Urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis

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Most common Malignant Tumor of the kidneys

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Renal cell carcinoma

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