Nephrology

Question 1

abdominal pain, joint pain, hematuria, swelling and vasculitis rash in child

Answer 1

Henoch-Schonlein purpura

Question 2

alport syndrome, hearing loss, visual changes, hematuria

Answer 2

hereditary nephritis

Question 3

antibodies to type IV collagen

Answer 3

goodpasture syndrome - antiglomerular basement membrane antibody disease

Question 4

mx that can cause allergic interstitial nephritis

Answer 4

NSAIDs, penicillin, cephalosporin, TMP-SMX, ciprofloxacin

Question 5

AIN clinical features

Answer 5

fever, rash, eosinophilia, WBC casts on UA, worsening creatinine, normal complement, microscopic hematuria, variable proteinuria

Question 6

test to confirm recent strep infection with glomerulonephritis picutre

Answer 6

streptozyme

Question 7

lumpy bumpy deposit of IgG and complement C3b on BM

Answer 7

postinfectious glomerulonephritis

Question 8

longitudinal splitting of lamina dense of BM

Answer 8

hereditary nephritis

Question 9

spike and dome subepithelial deposits on EM

Answer 9

membrane nephropathy

Question 10

subepithelial deposits and subendothelial deposits in mesangium, and subendothelial space

Answer 10

membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

Question 11

apple-green birefringence and amloid deposite

Answer 11

amyloidosis

Question 12

hypomagesnemia can cause

Answer 12

hypokalemia

Question 13

widened pr and qt interval, confusion, hyperreflexia, hypocalcemia, hypokalemia, trmeors/tetany/seizures, weakness can be caused by what electrolyte abn

Answer 13

hypomagnesesmia