Acid/Base/Potassium (ALL BRCU lectures done 7/19) Flashcards
7/19/2021 Lectures
What are 3 things that enhance renal NH3 production and NH4+ excretion?
3 things that inhibit it?
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Enhancers:
- Acidemia, hypokalemia, gluconeogenesis
Inhibitors:
- Alkalemia, hyperkalemia, angiotensin blockers
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What are the three main processes for urinary H+ excretion?
- Proximal acidification
- Distal acidification
- Bicarb reabsorption/generation
Hypokalemia stimulates acidemia/alkalemia?
Hyperkalemia?
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Hypokalemia –> alkalemia (increased bicarb generation)
Hyperkalemia –> acidemia (decreased bicarb generation)
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NAGMA: gain of ____ and loss of ____
HAGMA: gain of ____ and loss of ____
(Like what kind of ions)
NAGMA: gain of chloride ion and loss of bicarb
HAGMA: gain of non-chloride anion and loss of bicarb
DDx for HAGMA:
GOLD MARK
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What are the metabolites for the following:
Glycols: ethylene (?), propylene (?)
Oxoproline: (?)
L-lactate
D-lactate
Methanol: (?)
ASA: (?)
Renal failure
Ketoacidosis
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Glycols: ethylene (oxalic acid), propylene (lactate)
Oxoproline: (pyroglutamic acid)
L-lactate
D-lactate
Methanol: (formic acid)
ASA: (lactate + ketones)
Renal failure
Ketoacidosis
DDx for HAGMA:
CUTE DIMPLES
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Cyanide, citrate
Uremia
Toluene
Ethylene glycol
DKA
INH, iron
Methanol, metformin
Pyroglutamic acid, prolylene glycol, paraldehyde, propofol
Lactic acidosis, linezolid
Ethanol ketoacidosis
Salicyclates, starvation ketoacidosis, sodium thiosulfate (?)
What are the metabolites for the following:
Cyanide, citrate: (?)
Uremia
Toluene: (?)
Ethylene glycol
DKA
INH, iron
Methanol, metformin: (?)
Pyroglutamic acid, prolylene glycol, paraldehyde, propofol: (?)
Lactic acidosis, linezolid: (?)
Ethanol ketoacidosis
Salicyclates, starvation ketoacidosis, sodium thiosulfate
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Cyanide, citrate: (citric acid)
Uremia
Toluene: (hippuric acid)
Ethylene glycol
DKA
INH, iron
Methanol, metformin: (lactate)
Pyroglutamic acid, prolylene glycol, paraldehyde, propofol: (lactate)
Lactic acidosis, linezolid: (lactate)
Ethanol ketoacidosis
Salicyclates, starvation ketoacidosis, sodium thiosulfate
Toluene leads to an early HAGMA
What is the difference between diarrhea and RTA in NAGMA?
Which has a positive or negative urinary AG?
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When should you determine the delta gap?
What are the steps you take to determine a mixed AB disorder?
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What is the Winter’s Formula?
When do you use it?
How do you interpret it?
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What is the UCl for diuretics? Hyperaldo? Bartter? Gitelman?
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UCl > 20
Hyperaldo –> MetAc or MetAlk?
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MetAlk
Direct stimulation of H-ATPase
Direct stimulation of Na/K exchange
More open ENaC channels
When do you typically see pseudohypokalemia?
What is the WBC usually?
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Seen in AML
Marked leukocytosis
What does increased B-adrenergic activity do to the K level?
What drugs can have this affect?
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Cellular shift that causes hypokalemia (ex: stress induced epi)
Drugs: theophylline intoxication, rotodrine and terbutaline, albuterol
What does treatment of pernicious anemia do to K level? How?
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Causes hypokalemia
Give back Vit B12, now the new cells take up the K
Also, rapidly growing leukemias and lymphomas
(think anabolism)
Hypokalemia periodic paralysis:
Inheritance? Mutation?
Other clinical association?
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AD
Mutation in a-1 subunit of DHP-sensitive Ca channel
Hyperthyroidism
(Asian) male that has paralysis after large meal or extreme exercise: name the disorder? What other disorder is associated with this?
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Acquired hypokalemic periodic paralysis (they usually have hyperthryoidism)
Diuretics can cause a hypoK, but you get both extra and intracellular depletion - so they aren’t as symptomatic as someone with paralysis. The paralysis guys have a such a large transgradient because the K is shifting intracellularly - you aren’t losing K like in diuretics
In GI loss, what do you expect the UK to be?
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UK < 20
Diarrhea is the most common cause
Vomiting has 5-10 meq in the gastric juice (so hypokalemia is more due to the kidney K loss due to hypovolemia)
You have hypoK without an AB disorder: what are you thinking?
HyperK?
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Clay ingestion (also low phos and Fe)
Red clay (hyperK)
HypoK with NAGMA: what are you thinking?
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Small intestine disorder
HypoK with MetAlk: what are you thinking? (3, one of them is a med)
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Chronic laxative abuse
Congenital chloridorrhea (needs lifelong salt supplementation)
Villous adenoma
What do you expect the UK in kidney loss for hypoK? Why?
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UK > 20
Coupling of increased distal Na delivery and increased MC activity
High renin and High aldo
DDx?
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What is the renin and aldo in renal artery stenosis?
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High renin
High aldo
What is the renin and aldo in renin secreting tumor?
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High renin
High aldo
What is the renin and aldo in malignant HTN?
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High renin
High aldo
Low renin and High aldo
DDx?
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What is the renin and aldo in Conn’s syndrome?
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Low renin
High aldo
What is the renin and aldo in BL adrenal cortical hyperplasia?
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Low renin
High aldo
What is the renin and aldo in GC suppressible hyperaldo?
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Low renin
High aldo
What is GC suppresible hyperaldo?
What’s the big enzyme you need to know? How do you check?
Inheritance pattern?
What’s the treatment?
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- This is a crossover that results in a chimeric gene, where ACTH from the pituitary is driving the aldosterone production
- Increased production of 18-oxocortisol and 18-hydroxycortisol (check in the urine)
- AD (FMHx of HTN)
- Treat with exogenous GC (decreases the ACTH release, which will decrease aldo production)
Low renin and low aldo
DDx?
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Also Liddle
Activating mutation of the MC receptor
What is the renin and aldo in SAME?
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Low renin
Low aldo
What is the renin and aldo in Cushings?
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Low renin
Low aldo
What is the renin and aldo in congenital adrenal hyperplasia?
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Low renin
Low aldo
What are some clincal ssx in 11 b-hydroxylase deficiency?
17 a-hydroxylase deficiency?
(in congenital adrenal hyperplasia)
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11 beta = virilization
17 alpha = decreased sex hormones
Pathophys for syndrome of apparent mineralocorticoid excess?
What is the enzyme issue?
How are you labs?
What are some acquired causes?
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Cortisol isn’t being inactivated into cortisone
11 B-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency leads to more cortisol which stimulates the MC receptor
Urinary cortisol levels»_space; urinary cortisone
Glycyrrhetinic acid (licorice, chewing tobacco), grapefruit juice, bile acids (hyyperbili patients)
What is the renin and aldo in Liddle?
Treatment?
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Low renin
Low aldo
Amiloride or triamterene
What is the renin and aldo in activating mutation of MC receptor?
Inheritance?
What’s the pathophys?
What med is CI in this?
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Low renin
Low aldo
AD
Steroids usually antagonize, but here they activate the receptor
Spironolactone is CI (it’s now an MCR agonist)
What are things that increase distal Na delivery?
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Name 4 things that decrease proximal reabsorption of Na.
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Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (acetazolimide)
Osmotic diuretics
Met Ac
Topirimate
Name 3 things that decreases TAL reabsorption of Na.
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Loop diuretics
Mg deficiency
Bartter syndrome
remember that loops are secreted in the proximal tubule
What other electrolyte abnormalities are associated with hypoMg?
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Hypokalemic alkalosis
Hypocalcemia
Mg deficiency inhibits TAL Na absorption
Normal BP
Hypokalemia
MetAlk
Name the syndrome
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Bartter syndrome
Bartter syndrome:
HTN?
K level?
AB disorder?
Aldo?
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What are the 5 different Bartter mutations?
Which ones are clinically associated with other medical conditions?
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Know the deafness one and the AD hypocalcemia hypokalemic alkalosis, I can see this in a stem
Bartter:
Renin? Aldo? Urinary Ca?
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High renin and aldo
Hypercalciuria
Name 2 things that decreases DCT reabsorption of Na
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What do nonreabsorbable anions in the filtrate do to distal Na delivery?
How does it affect K excretion?
What are some of these anions?
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Also, toluene exposure (hippurate)
Kidney K Handling algorithm
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if you have MetAc and hypoK, treat the hypoK first (if you give BC, the K will go lower b/c it shifts into the cell)
What are some causes of pseudohyperK?
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Venipuncture
Increased WBC or Plt
What are 2 factors that shift K into the cell?
4 factors that shift K out?
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Name 3 drugs that shift K out of the cell?
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Digoxin
Chan su (herbal)
Succinylcholine (causes depolarization and leads to K accumulation in the NM junction)
What are some meds/conditions that impair renin release?
Impair aldo metabolism?
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What are some other names for Gordon syndrome?
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Familial hyperK HTN
Pseudohypoaldo type 2
HTN, hyperK, NAGMA
Cl dependent
AD
Responds to thiazides
Name the syndrome
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WNK4 inactivating mutation
Name the syndrome
What are some associated lab abnormalities?
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Associated hyperCalciuria
What is pseudohypoaldo type 1? How is it different than type 2?
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HyperK, MetAc, with hypoTN
AR pattern: inactivating ENaC; lots of pulm infections
AD pattern: inactivating MC receptor; mild and improves with age
Gordon’s (type 2) has HTN
What are 3 causes of high sweat Cl?
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CF
Congenital hyperchloridia
Pseudohypoaldo type 1
Name all the kidney syndromes
(figure)
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What are some ways to determine the respiratory compensation for primary MetAc?
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First: most accurate
Second: easiest
What are some causes of low anion gap?
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Low albumin
Severe NAGMA
Increased unmeasured cations (but with accompanied Cl or BC)
- Increased Ca or Mg, lithum, IgG paraproteinemia, polymyxin B
Spurius Cl elevation
- Bromide, iodide, salicyclate
What are some causes of a high anion gap?
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Severe volume depletion (increased albumin)
Resp and Met alkalosis
Increased IgA (anion)
Increased TG
Severe hyperphos
What are the only 2 things that lower you Cl level?
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MetAlk
Chronic RespAc
Does what to you Cl level?
Na 150
Cl 100
BC 20
Name the AB disorder
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Na 130
Cl 100
BC 6
Name the AB disorder
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What are the only 2 things that increase you Cl level?
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NAGMA
Chronic RespAlk
Does what to your Cl level?
What are the 3 different types of lactic acidosis?
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Type A: tissue hypoxia
Type B: nothing to do with hypoxia or hypoperfusion
Type D: bacterial overgrowth
What are the causes of hyperK in DKA?
What is NOT a cause?
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What kind of acidosis do you see in early vs. late DKA?
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NAGMA in early DKA (ECF volume is near normal)
Once you have decreased EABV, you get in increased AG
NAGMA in the recovery phase of DKA due to indirect loss of NaBC in the urine with kidney retention of NaCl and admin of NaCl
What are the metabolites and their effects of methanol? Ethylene glycol?
Treatment?
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In EtOH ketoacidosis, which comes first: thiamine or glucose and why?
Thiamine then glucose to minimize the risk of Wernicke or Korsakoff
Propylene glycol: what kind AB disorder?
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HAGMA
RespAlk and HAGMA: whats the intoxication?
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Salicylate poisoning
Sometimes as NAGMA
What kind of AB disorder do you get with salicylate toxicity?
Uric acid level?
Glucose level?
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RespAlk + HAGMA
Low dose salicylate -> increase uric acid
High dose salicylate -> decreases uric acid
Hypoglycemia
Sometimes a NAGMA
Steps to do an AB disorder question
(figure)
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What are your compensation ratios for bicarb and CO2?
(figure)
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There are a lot of different ways to do it, but maybe just learn the box?
What are the correction factors of a VBG to ABG for pH and pCO2?
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pH: add 0.05
pCO2: subtract 5
What is the correction factor for albumin when you determining the anion gap?
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Correction for albumin:
(4-albumin) x 2.5
What is the equation for a urine anion gap?
What’s the etiology of a positive UAG? Negative UAG?
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Na+K-Cl
Positive - renal cause (low NH4 excretion)
Negative - nonrenal cause (appropriate NH4 excretion)
Toluene is associated with what metabolite?
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Hippuric acid
is a metabolite of what?
What is the equation for a urine osmolal gap?
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Measured UOsm - [2x(Na+K)+(UUN/2.8)+(Glucose/18)]
Which of the RTAs cause hypoK?
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Proximal RTA (type 2)
Classic distal RTA (type 1)
Mixed (type 3)
Which of the RTAs cause hyperK?
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Aldo deficiency/resistance (type 4)
Non-MC voltage defect
What is the K level and the type of MetAc:
progressive CKD?
Uremic acidosis?
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Progressive CKD: normal K and NAGMA
Uremic acidosis: normal K and HAGMA
What is the K level in the following?
Proximal RTA?
Distal RTA?
Mixed RTA?
Aldo deficient/resistance?
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Top three - hypoK
Bottom - hyperK
What are the updated names (locations) of the 4 RTAs?
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Urinary bicarb loss - what kind of RTA?
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Type 2 proximal RTA
What is the overall pathophys for a Type 2 RTA?
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Urinary bicarb loss
NaPi-2 mutation, cystinosis (MC), glycogen storage diease, wilson’s - what kind of RTA?
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Type 2 proximal RTA
What are some other etiology for generalized proximal RTA dysfunction?
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What is type 2 RTA also known as?
What are reasons for an acquired form of Type 2 RTA?
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MM, amyloidosis, heavy metal toxins (Pb, Cd, Hg) - what kind of RTA?
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Type 2 proximal RTA
Carbonic anhydrase (acetazolimide), ifosfamide, cisplatin, tenofovir - what kind of RTA?
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Type 2 proximal
What are some meds that can cause Type 2 RTA?
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UpH < 5.5
Normal UAG
Fanconi syndrome
Name the RTA
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Proximal RTA
UpH?
UAG?
What other syndrome?