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Features of nephrotic syndrome

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  1. Edema
  2. Proteinuria
  3. Hypoalbuminemia
  4. Hyperlipidemia
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Nephrotic syndrome is a non-inflammatory condition with _____ urinary sediment and ______ or _______ creatinine.

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inactive; normal or mildly elevated

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What is the key cell in nephrotic syndrome?

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Visceral epithelial Cell(podocyte)

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Features of nephritic syndrome

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  1. “active” urinary sediment(dysmorphic RBCs and red cell casts)
  2. Inflammation
  3. Hypertension
  4. Elevated creatinine
  5. Cresents in biopsy
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What is the key cell in nephritic syndrome?

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Endothelial Cell

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What are some other clinical presentations of glomerular disease, other than nephrotic and nephritic syndrome?

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  1. Asymptomatic disease
  2. Macroscopic hematuria
  3. rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
  4. Chronic glomerulonephritis
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When will glomerular disease be without symptoms?

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  1. Proteinuria between 150 mg to 3 g/day
  2. Mild hematuria
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Describe macroscopic hematurea:

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Brown, red, or red/brown urine with no clots

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Typical presentation of patients with chronic glomeruolnephritis?

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  1. Hypertension
  2. Renal insufficiency
  3. Proteinuria
  4. Shrunken kidney disease
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What are casts?

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Cylindrical formations of cells or proeinaceous material

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What are the most common casts?

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Hyaline casts

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What are these?

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Dysmorphic RBCs

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Describe hyaline casts

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colorless, homogenous, and transparent

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What do the arrows point to?

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Hyaline Casts

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What forms hyaline casts?

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The secretion of Tamm-Horsfall mucoprotein

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Tamm-Horsfall mucoprotein is secreted by? Can sometimes contain what in conditions of proteinurea?

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Renal Tubule Cells; Albumin

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The second most common type of cast?

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Granular Casts

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What do granular casts result from?

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Aggregates of plasma protein, breakdown of cellular casts, or the breakdown of cellular casts

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What color are granular casts composed of fine granules? Coarse granules?

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Grey or pale yellow;

Darker - often black

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Where are granular casts formed?

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Renal Tubule

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What do granular cast almost always indicate?

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Significal renal disease

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What type of casts are seen with acute tubular necrosis?

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“Muddy brown” granular casts

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What is this?

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Granular Cast

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What are fatty casts?

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Yellow-tan hyaline casts with fat globulin inclusions (oval fat bodies)

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What forms fatty casts?
Breakdown of lipid-rich epithelial cells
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What is the maltese cross pattern seen under polarized light associated with? Indicate what?
cholesterol or cholesterol esters are present. Lipiduria in Nephrotic Syndrome
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What does the mechanism of disease in nephrotic syndrome depend on?
Whether there is inflammation as part of the disease process
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Mechanisms of nephrotic syndrome without glomerular inflammation?
1. **Podocyte injury** in minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 2. **Subepithelial immune complex formation** and **complement activation** in membranous nephropathy 3. **Glomerular capillary wall deposition** in diabetic nephropathy, amyloidosis, and light chain deposition disease
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Mechanism of nephrotic syndrome with glomerular inflammation
1. **Mesiangial or capillary wall immune complex formation and complement activation** in IgA nephropathy and acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis 2. **Antibodies directed against GBM** in anti-GBM disease 3. **Necrotizing injury and inflammation of the glomerular capillaries** in disease associated with antineutrophil cytophil autoantibodies (ANCA)
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Why are immune complexes formed and trapped in the glomeruli?
1. The high plasma flow rate through them 2. High intraglomerular pressure 3. high glomerular hydraulic conductivity
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What does the manifestation of disease depend on?
The nature of the antigen involved and the site of immune complex deposition.
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What diseases are subepithelial deposits seen in?
post-infectious glomerulonephritides and membranous nephropathy
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What do subepithelial deposits tend to cause?
A nephrotic syndrome picture
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Where are subendothelial and mesangial deposits formed?
Either locally or from passive entrapment of circulating immune complexes
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What do subendothelial and mesangial deposits tend to cause?
Nephritic syndrome picture - focal or diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis and IgA nephropathy
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Clincal features of nephrotic syndrome:
1. Urine protein excretion - \> 50mg/kg/day or \> 3.5 g/day in adults and \> 40mg/hr/M2 in children 2. Hypoalbumineamia - Serum level \< 3.5 g/dL 3. Hypercholesterolemia 4. Lipiduria 5. Can have xanthelasma(subQ lipid deposits)
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3 purposes of kidney biopsy?
1. Make a dx 2. Determine px 3. Guide therapy
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What 3 types of microscopy do renal biopsies need?
1. Light microscopy 2. Immunofluorescence 3. Electron Microscopy
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Absolute contraindications of renal biopsy:
bleeding diathesis, uncontrolled hypertension
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Relative controindications of renal biopsies:
single kidney, high pressure hydronephrosis, adult polyscystic kidney disease
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What are the main sites of size hindrance for larger molecules in the glomerular filtration barrier?
Lamina densa of the GBM and the slit diaphragm
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What is the estimated pore radius for spherical molecules?
42 Angstrom
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What are the main sites of charge hindrance in the glomerular filtration barrier?
Anionic charge lamina rara interna and fenestrated capillary endothelium
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How much protein is actually excreted in the urine? Why?
Only a tiny amount. Most of the filtered protein is reabsorbed by the renal tubules.
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How are proteins taken up in the tubules?
Epithelial cells take them up through endocytosis.
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What are the receptors that play a role in the endocytosis of protein?
megalin and cubulin
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In glomerulonephritis what is the dominant protein in urine?
Albumin
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Tubular disease is associatied with what type of proteinuria?
Low molecular weight proteins
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What protein does a urine dipstick measure?
Albumin
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How much albumin may health kidneys excrete each day?
30 mg
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What is the rate of excretion for Tamm0Horsfall mucoprotein?
30-50 mg/day
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What is microaluminuria?
Albumin levels between 30 and 300 mg/day it is the earliest clinical manisfestation of diabetic nephropathy.
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What are some methods of measuring protein urine?
Dipstick, 24-hour urine collection, and spot urine protein/creatinine ratio.
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Advantages of dipstick?
Cheap, quick, and semi-quantitative

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