Chronic Renal Failure & Renal/LUT Carcinoma Flashcards
3 most common causes of chronic renal failure
diabetes mellitus,
hypertension,
glomerular disease
- Uremia
- Salt and water retention –> HTN
- Hyperkalemia w/ metabolic acidosis (anion gap)
- Anemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Renal osteodystrophy
chronic renal failure
Nausea, anorexia, pericarditis, platelet dysfunction, encepalopathy with asterixis, deposition of urea crystals in skin
Chronic renal failure –> increased nitrogenous waste products in blood (azotemia) –>
why do you get anemia in chronic renal failure?
Decreased epo production by renal peritubular interstitial cells
why do you get hypocalcemia in chronic renal failure?
- decreased I-alpha-hydroxylation of vitamin D by proximal renal tubule cells
- hyperphosphatemia
Why do patients with CRF get platelet dysfunction?
uremia –> impairs platelet aggregation and adhesion
Why do patients with CRF get renal osteodystrophy?
- secondary hyperparathyroidism –> osteitis fibrosa cystica
- osteomalacia (can’t mineralize osteoid made by osteoblasts)
- osteoporosis (leach calcium from bone due to metabolic acidosis)
treatment of CRF
dialysis or renal transplant
what develops in the shrunken end-stage kidneys during dialysis?
cysts
patients on dialysis for chronic renal failure have increased frisk for
renal cell carcinoma
hamartoma comprised of blood vessels, smooth muscle, and adipose tissue; associated with tuberous sclerosis
angiomyolipoma
triad of renal cell carcinoma
hematuria, palpable mass, flank pain
malignant epithelial tumor arising from kidney tubules
renal cell carcinoma
paraneoplastic syndromes associated with RCC
EPO, renin, PTHrP, ACTH
involvement of the left renal vein by carcinoma blocks drainage of the left spermatic vein
RCC –> left variocele
why do you not get right-side varicocele in RCC?
right spermatic vein drains directly into the IVC
Increased IGF-1 –>
promotes growth
Increased HIF transcription factor –>
increased VEGF and PDGF
pathogenesis of RCC
loss of VHL (3p) tumor suppressor gene –> increased IG-F and HIF transcription facot
on what chromosome is VHL
3p
major risk factor for sporadic RCC
cigarette smoke
sporadic tumors classically arise in adult males (average age is 60) as a single tumor where?
upper pole of kidney
what disease –> hereditary RCC (wh/ arises in younger adults and is often bilateral)?
Von Hippel Lindau disease