Liver and Renal Flashcards
What is the safest local anaesthetic to use for infiltration on a patient with advanced liver disease?
Articaine
What is the first line analgesia for a patient with liver cirrhosis ?
Paracetamol
What clotting factors does the liver produce?
1, 3, 7, 9, 10 and 11
Other than clotting factors which product of the liver is essential in achieving haemostasis?
Thrombopoietin
What is the minimum UKELD score for an individual to be placed on a liver transplant list?
49
What condition affecting the liver is strongly associated with obesity and type II diabetes?
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
The Dane particle is found in the serum of patients infected with what liver condition?
Hepatitis B
Halothane can be responsible for causing which liver condition?
Drug induced Hepatitis
The face-oral route is the main route of transmission for which condition affecting the liver?
Hepatitis A
What condition affecting the liver is characterised by liver cell necrosis and inflammation followed by replacement with fibrotic tissue, regenerating nodules of hepatocytes and vascular derangement?
Cirrhosis
What is the primary malignancy of the liver called?
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Sofosbuvir is the treatment for which viral infection
Hepatitis C
What condition affecting the liver has circular RNA?
Hepatitis D
Where is an arteriovenous fistula placed and what is it for?
Above the wrist
For haemodialysis
Which area of the kidney actively reabsorbs glucose, amino acids, uric acid and inorganic salts
Proximal convoluted tubule