Nephrology Flashcards
mumps
Orchitis
postbuertal males
Orchitis
Cigarette smoking
Bladder Cancer
Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)
Most common renal malignancy
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC)
normochromic anemia
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC)
Most common solid renal tumor in child
Wilms tumor (nephroblastoma) -has anemia
Most common malignancy in young men
Testicular Cancer
Emergent masses
Paraphymosis Testicular torsion (surgical emergency)
Painless masses
Testicular Cancer (solid, testicular swelling)
Hydrocele (soft, wax and wane in size)
Variocele (chronic, mass, not transluminate)
Nephroblastoma (Will’s tumor)
Transluminates
Hydrocele (painless, soft, tunica vaginalis)
Spermatocele (painful, round, firm, sup/post)
Hx of cyptochidism can lead to
Testicular torsion
Testicular cancer
Severe unilateral pain with scrotal swelling
Testicular torsion (sx emergency)
Which side is more common for a variocele
Left
Bag of worms
Varicocele
Chlamydia and gonococci can cause what type of infection in men
Epidydymitis < 35
>35 think E. coli
Positive Phrehn’s sign
Negative Phrehn’s sign
Epidydymitis (+) Testicular torsion (-)
means pain goes away when elevate the scrotum/testicle
bone pain goes w/?
prostate cancer
40-70 yo + hematuria and nothing else
cystoscopy definitive
bladder cancer
treat with insulin therapy
metabolic acidosis
hyperkalemia
sudden high fever w/ low back pain and perineal pain
prostatitis
sarcoidosis
hypercalcemia
tx with IV calcium gluconate
Hypocalcemia
Hypermagnasemia
Hyperkalemia
Calcium carbonate for hyperphosphatemia
reduced DTR
Hypermagnesemia (also bleeding and clotting time increased)
Trousseau sign
Hypocalcemia (bend wrists in/flex)