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Acute Kidney Injury Flashcards

1
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What is the definition of acute kidney injury?

A

An abrupt (within 48 hours) reduction in kidney function, defined as:
• Increase in serum creatinine of > 0.3mg/dL OR
• % increase in serum creatinine of 50% OR
• Oliguria of 6 hours

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What is the relationship between acute kidney injury and critical illness?

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AKI is often found in critically ill patients

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What are the 3 groups of AKI causes?

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  • Prerenal Azotemia
  • Intrinsic Renal Disease
  • Postrenal Obstruction
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What are the causes of prerenal azotemia?

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i. True hypovolemia
ii. Decreased effective circulating volume
iii. Renal artery stenosis/occlusion
iv. NSAID/ACE-I/ARB mechanism

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What are the causes of intrinsic renal disease?

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i. Vascular causes
ii. Glomerular disease
iii. ATN
iv. AIN

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What are the causes of postrenal obstruction?

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i. Bladder outlet obstruction
ii. Bilateral ureteral obstruction
iii. Unilateral ureteral obstruction in a solitary kidney

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What are the 2 most common causes of AKI?

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  • Prerenal Azotemia

- Ischemic ATN

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What can prerenal azotemia progress to if it is not corrected?

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Ischemic ATN

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What is prerenal azotemia?

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It is an appropriate response to renal hypo perfusion that leads to a build up of nitrogen compounds in the blood

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What are some of the causes of prerenal azotemia?

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  • Decreased ECV
  • Renal artery stenosis
  • Drug-induced impaired renal autoregulation
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What is the normal renal response to drop in BP?

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  • Afferent vasodilation

- Efferent vasoconstriction

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What is the effect of NSAIDs on the GFR?

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NSAIDs decrease the GFR by causing afferent arterial vasoconstriction

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What is the effect of ACE-I/ARBs on the GFR?

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They do not affect the GFR that much. They dilate the efferent arterioles which has a protective effect.

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What are some of the risk factors for postern disease?

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  • Older men with prostate disease
  • Solitary kidney
  • Intra-abdominal (pelvic) cancer
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What are the 4 categories of intrinsic renal disease?

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  • vascular causes
  • glomerular diseases
  • acute interstitial nephritis
  • acute tubular necrosis
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16
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What are some of the causes of ATN?

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  • Sepsis
  • Surgery
  • Nephrotoxic exposures
17
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What is the major cause of intrinsic renal disease?

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ATN

18
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What are the classical features of ATN?

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  • Muddy brown urine
  • Oliguric Phase (HTN/Hyperkalemia/Volume Overload)
  • Polyuric Phase
19
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What are the two types of ATN?

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  • Ischemic

- Toxic

20
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What are some of the vascular causes of intrinsic renal failure?

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  • Vasculitis
  • Thromboembolic disease
  • HUS/TTP
  • Malignant HTN
  • Scleroderma renal crisis
21
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What is the main vascular cause of intrinsic renal failure?

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Malignant HTN - which causes impending/progressive organ dysfunction

22
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What are the two class of acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) that lead to intrinsic renal failure?

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Drug Associated (NSAIDs and antibiotics)
Non-drug Associated (Infectious/Autoimmune)
23
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What is the triad of signs in AIN?

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Fever, peripheral eosinophilia, rash

24
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Abdominojugular Reflex

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Pushing on the umbilicus leads to jugular vein rising of more than 4 cm

25
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What are signs that the body is too dry?

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  • Dry mucous membranes
  • Skin tenting (only useful if positive in adults)
  • Neck veins flat at 0 degrees
26
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What are signs that the body is too wet?

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  • Abdominojugular reflux at 30-45 degrees
  • S3 gallop
  • Ascites
27
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Prerenal Azotemia Urinanalysis

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Hyaline Casts

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Prerenal Azotemia Urine Specific Gravity

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It will be high - 1.020

29
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Prerenal Azotemia Osmolality

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It will be high - greater than 500

30
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Prerenal Azotemia FE of Na

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It will be low - less than 1%

31
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Prerenal Azotemia FE of Urea

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Less than 35%

32
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ATN Urinanalysis

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Tubular Epithelial Casts

33
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ATN Urine Specific Gravity

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Low

34
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ATN Osmolality

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It will be low - less than 300

35
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ATN FE of Na

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Greater than 2%

36
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ATN FE of Urea

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Greater than 35%

37
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What is the BUN:Cr ratio in prerenal azotemia?

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Greater than 10:1

38
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What is the BUN:Cr ratio in ATN?

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10:1

39
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What are the general indications for hemodialysis in acute kidney injury?

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  • Acidosis (severe and/or refractory)
  • Electrolyte derangement (usually severe ↑K+)
  • Intoxication syndrome (severe, dialyzable)
  • Overload (significant pulmonary edema)
  • Uremia (significantly symptomatic)

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