Lecture 10 - Haematuria & Proteinuria

Question 1

Proteinuria & tests?

Answer 1

mainly albumin; 24 hour urine, albumin:creatinine & protein:creatinine

Question 2

Microalbuminuria diagnosis?

Answer 2

30-300mg albumin/day; 2.5-25mg/mmol albumin:creatinine ratio

Question 3

Microalbuminuria causes?

Answer 3

diabetes, fever, exercise, heart failure

Question 4

Nephrotic syndrome and pressures?

Answer 4

low albumin, low oncotic P (derived from plasma proteins), and high hydrostatic pressure, water pushed from intravascular compartment into tissue

Question 5

Nephrotic syndrome and fats?

Answer 5

low plasma oncotic pressure increases lipoprotein production by liver, increasing cholesterol production; VLDL and LDL metabolism is also reduced

Question 6

Nephritic syndrome presentations?

Answer 6

AKI, hypertension, RBC in urine, RBC casts

Question 7

Nephrotic Syndrome Presentations?

Answer 7

oedema, proteinuria, renal function normal or impaired

Question 8

Glomerula Haematuria?

Answer 8

often microscopic, often paired w proteinuria

Question 9

Haematuria from collecting systems?

Answer 9

usually macroscopic, no/little proteinuriaq

Question 10

Spread of renal cancer?

Answer 10

local spread not common, mainly blood-borne metastases