Genitourinary system Flashcards
What is the functions of the renal system?
Notes from lecture not reader
- excretion of many metabolic breakdown products e.g. urea, creatinine and uric acid, drugs and toxins
- regulation of fluid and electrolyte balance
- regulation of acid-base homeostasis
- regulation of calcium and phosphate homeostasis
- regulation of blood pressure
- vitamin D metabolism
- production of red blood cells
Check out physiology on GFR and BP slide 14j
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Physiology: Acid base balance
slide 18
taking a renal system history
pg 239 of reader
Physical examination
pg 240
lab tests to indicate renal function?
pg
What are the components of urine you should take notice off?
pg 243
What are some other tests you could do?
Macroalbumin Cytology (study of cells) Creatine protein clearance Drug screening Pregnancy
Pathology
Glomerular disease
Glomerulonephritis (GN).
The difference between primary and secondary glomerularnephritis?
What would be the history and exam findings you may expect with this disorder
pg
UTI pathology? Clinical presentation? What are some clinical considerations? how is it managed?
246-7
Urethritis
Pathology?
Clinical presentation?
Management?
247
Urolithiasis/ nephrolithiasis? What is it? Pathology? Clinical presentation? Testing done? Clinical considerations? management?
248-9
Kidney/ urethral malignancies?
249
Differential diagnosis between pure nephritic syndrome or pure nephrotic syndrome
251
Cyctitis vs pyelonephritis vs prostatis?
Symptoms of each?
252