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What is horseshoe kidney?
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- Conjoined kidneys usually connected at the lower pole
- Most common congenital renal anomly
- Most commonly located in the lower abdomen
- Horseshoe kidney gets caught on the inferior mesenteric artery root during its ascent from the pelvis to the abdomen
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What is the difference between unilateral and bilateral renal agenesis?
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- renal agnesis = absent kidney formation
- Unilateral agenesis leads to hypertrophy of the existing kidney
- One kidney now has to do the work of two kidneys
- Functions fine until later in life
- Hyperfiltration increases risk of renal failure later in life
- Bilateral Agenesis leads to oligohydramnios (not enough amnitic fluid is produced) with lung hypoplasia, flat face with low set ears and developmental defects of the extremities (Potter’s Sequence)
- Incompatabile with life
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What is Potter’s Sequence?
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- Due to Oligohydramnios: not enough amniotic fluid is produced
- Lung Dysplasia (lungs don’t develop properly)
- When the lung develops, one way that it grows is by stretch
- Breathing in and out amniotic fluid streches the lung
- If not enough amniotic fluid, lung can’t develop
- Flat face with low set ears
- no amniotic fluid means face will get pressed up against the wall of the uterus causing flat face with low set ears
- Limb Deformaties
- limbs are also pressued up against mom so they develop abnormally
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What is dysplastic kidney disease?
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- Noninherited
- Congenital malformation of the renal parenchyma characterized by cysts and abnormal tissue
- Usually unilateral
- When bilateral, must be distinguished from inherited polycystic kidney disease
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What is Polycystic Kidney Disease? What are the two different versions?
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- Inherited defect leading to bilateral enlarged kidneys with cysts in the renal cortex and medulla
- Autosomal recessive form presents in infants as worsening renal failure and hypertension
- Newborns may present with Potter sequence
- Kidneys are not working properly so not producing enough amniotic fluid
- Newborns may present with Potter sequence
- Autosomal dominant form presents in young adults as hypertension (due to increased renin), hematuria, and worsening kidney failure
- Due to mutation in the APKD1 or APKD2 gene
- Cysts develop over time
- Associated with berry aneurysms, hepatic cysts and mitral valve prolapse
- If have family history of renal disease and there is death occuring b/c of renal disease or brain hemorrhage, think autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
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What is Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease?
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- Inherited: autosomal dominant
- Defect leading to cysts in the medullary collecting ducts
- Parenchymal fibrosis results in shrunken kidneys and worsening renal failure
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What is acute renal failure?
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- acute, severe decrease in renal function (develops in days)
- Hallmark is azotemia (increase in waste products in the blood: increased BUN and creatinine)
- Often with Oliguria: low production of urine
- 3 types: prerenal, postrenal and intrarenal azotemia
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What is prerenal azotemia?
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- Due to increased blood flow to the kidneys
- Ex. Cardiac Failure
- Decreased blood flow results in decreased GFR, azotemia and oliguria
- Reabsorption of fluid and BUN ensues (serum BUN:Cr ratio >15)
- Because there is low blood flow to the kidney, the renin/angiotensin system will be activated and aldosterone will cause reabsorption of sodium and water
- B.c of water reabsorption, more BUN will be reabsorbed
- Tubular function remains intact (fraction excretion of sodium [FANa] <1% and urinary osmalility is [osm] > 500
- tubules can absorb sodium and concentrate urine still
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What is postrenal azotemia?
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- Due to obstruction of the urinary tract downstream of the kidney
- Have back pressure which will decrease glomerular pressure
- Decreased outflow results in decreased GFR, azotemia and oliguria
- During early stage of obstruction, increased tubular pressure forces BUN into the blood (serum BUN:Cr >15)
- Tubular Function remains intact (FENa <1% and urine osm >500)
- With longstanding obstruction, tubular damage ensues resulting in:
- decreased reabsorption of BUN (serum BUN:Cr <1)
- decreased reabsorption of sodium (FENa >2)
- inability to concentrate urine (urine osm <500)
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What is Acute Tubular Necrosis?
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- Injury and necrosis of tubular epithelial cells
- Most common cause of acute renal failure
- Intrarenal azotemia
- Necrotic cells plug tubules and the obstruction causes a decrease in the GFR
- It causes backpressure and backpressure counteracts glomerular pressure
- Brown, granular casts are seen in the urine
- Dysfunctional tubular epithelium results in decreased reabsorption of BUN (serum BUN/Cr <15), decreased reabsorption of sodium (FENa >2%) and inability to concentrate urine (urine osm <500)
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What are the two causes of Acute Tubular Necrosis? What can prevent chemotherapy induced Acute Tubular Necrosis?
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- Ischemia
- decreased blood supply resulting in necrosis of tubules
- often preceded by prerenal azotemia
- If bloodflow remains low for an extended period of time, can become ischemic
- proximal tubule and medullary segment of the thick ascending limb are particularly susceptible to ischemic damage
- Nephrotoxic
- Toxic agents result in necrosis of tubules
- Proximal tubule is particularly susceptible
- Causes include aminoglycosides (most common), heavy metals (lead), myoglobinuria (crush injury to muscle), ethylene glycol (associated with oxalate crystals in urine), radiocontrast dye, and urate (ex. tumor lysis syndrome)
- Hydration and allopurinol are used prior to initiation of chemotherapy to decrease risk of urate-induced Acute Tubular Necrosis
- Toxic agents result in necrosis of tubules
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What are the clinical features of Acute Tubular Necrosis? How do you treat it?
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- Oliguria with brown, granular casts
- Elevated BUN and creatinine
- low GFR means you can’t filter out BUN and Cr
- Hyperkalemia (due to decreased renal excretion) with metabolic acidosis
- Metabolic acidosis is due to the fact that you have a decrease in excretion of organic acids
- will have increased anion gap
- Reversible but often requires supportive dialysis since electrolyte imablances can be fatal
- Oliguria can persist for 2-3 weeks before recovery
- tubular cells (stable cells) take time to reenter the cell cycle and regenerate
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What are the brown, granular casts found in Acute Tubular Necrosis?
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- Epithelial cells die, sloth off and obstruct the the tubule
- Dead epithelial cells then get casted in the shape of the tubule
- See dead endothelial cells making up the cast in the urine
- Looks brown and granular because cells are dead
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What is Acute Interstitial Nephritis?
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- Drug-induced hypersentivity involving the interstitum and tubules results in acute renal failure (intrarenal azotemia)
- Causes include NSAIDS, penicillin, and diuretics
- Presents as oliguria, fever, and rash days to weeks after strating a drug
- Eosinophils may be seen in urine
- Resolves with cessation of drug
- May progress to renal papillary necrosis
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What is Renal Papillary Necrosis?
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- Necrosis of renal papillae
- Presents with gross hematuria and flank pain
- Causes include:
- Chronic analgesic abuse (long term phenacetin or aspirin use)
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Sickle Cell trait or disease
- Severe Acute Pyelonephritis
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What is nephrotic syndrome?
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- Glomerular disorders characterized by proteinuria (>3.5 g/day) resulting in:
- Hypoalbuminemia: pitting edema
- Hypogammaglobulinemia: increased risk of infection
- Hypercoagualable state: due to loss of antithrombin III
- Antithrombin III breaks up thrombin and other coagulation factors so you can’t produce thrombin
- Hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia: may result in fatty casts in urine
- loss of protein causes blood to be tthin so liver reacts by putting excess fat in the blood to beef it up
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What is Minimal Change Disease (MCD)?
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- Most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in children
- Usually idiopathic but may be associated with Hodgkins lymphoma
- Normal glomeruli on H&E stain
- lipid may be seen in the proximal tubule
- Effacement of foot process on eletron microscopy
- in MCD, you lose the foot processes on the glomerular filtration barrier
- No immune complex deposits; negative immunofluorescence
- Selective proteinuria
- change is so minimal that only protein lost is albumin
- Excellent response to steroids (damage is mediated by cytokines from T cells)
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What is the relationship between Minimal Change Disease and Hodgkins Lymphoma?
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- in MCD, you lose the foot processes on the glomerular filtration barrier
- cytokines damage the foot processes
- In Hodkins lymphoma, get massive production of cytokines by Reed-Sternberg cells
- Cytokines can attack the kidney and knock out podocytes
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What is Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis?
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- Most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in Hispanics and African Americans
- Usually idiopathic but can be associated with HIV, heroin use, and sickle cell disease
- Focal (some glomeruli) and segmental (involving only part of the glomerulus) sclerosis is seen on H&E staining
- not all glomeruli are affected
- glomeruli that are affected have only part of it not working
- Effacement of foot processes on EM (flattened podocytes)
- No immune deposits; negative IF
- Poor response to steroids
- Progresses to chronic renal failure
- Patient with Minimal Change Disease that do not respond to steroids progress to Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
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What does mebranous mean in terms of renal pathology?
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- thickening of the membrane due to immune complex desposition
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What is Mebranous Nephropathy?
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- Most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in Caucausian adults
- May be associated with Hep B or C, solid tumors, SLE or drugs (NSAIDS and penicillamine)
- immune complex deposition forms under podocyte or subepithelial
- Due to immune complex deposition
- Get granular immunoflorescence
- subepithelial deposits with spike dome appearance on EM
- Poor response to steroids
- Progresses to chronic renal failure
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Why does Membranous Nephropathy have a spike and dome appearance on EM?
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- immune complex deposition forms under podocyte or on subepithelial cell
- podocyte responds by trying to lay down additional basement membrane
- generate a dome over the deposit
- in between the deposits, end up creating spikes
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What causes Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis?
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- get immune complex deposition under the endothelium or under the basement membrane
- the mesangial cell that is holding the capillary together will notice the immune complex deposit and will proliferate its cytoplasm to cut through the deposit
- creates a tram track appearance b/c splits deposit in half
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What is Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis and what are the two subtypes?
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- thick glomerular basement membrane formation with tram track appeance due to immune complex deposition
- Granular immunoflorence
- Divied into two suptypes based on location of the deposits
- Type I: subendothelial
- Associated with Hep B and Hep C
- more associated with Tram Tracks
- Type II: dense deposit disease
- intramembranous
- Associated with C3 nephritic factor
- Autoantibody that stabilizes C3 convertase, leading to overactivation of complement, inflammation and low levels of circulating C3)
- Type I: subendothelial
- Poor response to steroids
- Progresses to chronic renal failure
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What is the effect of Diabetes Mellitus on the kidneys? How can progression to kidney failure be slowed down?
* High serum glucose leads to nonenzymatic glycoslylation of the vascular membrane resulting in hyaline arteriolosclerosis
* when you stick sugar on the basement membrane without the use of enzyme, thats nonenzymatic glycosylation: basement membrane becomes leaky and protein leaks into wall of blood vessel causing hyaline arteriosclerosis
* hyaline arteriolosclerosis causes thickening of the blood vessel wall which causes a decrease in the size of the lumen
* Glomerular effererent arteriole is more affected than the afferent arteriole, leading to high glomerular pressure
* Hyperfiltration injury leads to microalbuminuria
* Eventually progresses to nephrotic syndorme
* characterized by sclerosis of the mesangium with formation of Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules
* ACE inhibitors slow progression of hyperfiltration-induced damage
* Angiotension II squeezes on efferent arteriole
* If you stop that from happening, have less squeezing down on efferent arteriole thus slowing down progression
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How does systemic amyloidoisis affect the kidneys?
* Kidney is te most commonly involved organ in systemic amyloidosis
* Amyloid deposits in the mesangium, resulting in nephrotic syndrome
* Characterized by apple-green birefringence under polarized light after staining with Congo red
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What is nephritic syndrome?
* Glomerular disorders characterized by glomerular inflammation and bleeding
* Limiting proteinuria (\<3.5 g/day)
* Oliguria and azotemia
* Salt retention with periorbital edema and hypertension
* RBC casts and dysmorphic RBCs in urine
* Biopsy reveals hyperceulluar, inflammed glomeruli
* immune complexes cause the inflammation
* immune complex deposition activates complement
* C5a attracts neutrophils which mediate damage
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What type of casts are found with nephritic syndromes and why?
* glomerulus is bleeding so have RBCs going into the tubules
* the RBCs get casted in the shape of the tubule and are urinated out as a square cast of RBCs
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What is Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis (PSGN)? How does it present and how is it treated?
* Nephritic syndrome that arises after group A beta hemolytic streptococcal infection of the skin or pharynx
* occurs with nephritogenic strains: strain carrying M protein virulence factor
* May occur after infection with nonstreptococcal organisms as well
* Presents 2-3 weeks after infection as hematuria (cola-colored urine), oliguria, hypertension and periorbital edema
* Usually seen in children but may occur in adults
* Mediated by immune complex deposition: immune complexes start subendothelial and work their way up and pile up in subepithelial
* Deposits will eventually pass their way through
* Treatment is supportive
* Children rarely progress to renal failure
* Some adults develop rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN)
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What are the histological findings associated with Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis (PSGN)?
* Hypercellular, inflammed glomeruli on H&E
* Mediated by immune complex deposition (granular immunoflorescence)
* Subepithelial humps on EM
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What is Diffuse Proliferative Glomerulonephritis?
* Due to diffuse antigen-antibody complex deposition usually sub-endothelial
* Most common type of renal disease in SLE
* Caused by mebranous nephropathy in lupus patients
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What is Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis?
* Nephritic syndrome that progresses to renal failure in weeks to months
* Characterized by crescents in Bowman's space (of glomeruli) on H&E
* Cresecents are comprised of fibrin and macrophages
* Various forms of Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis which can be classified via immunofluorescence findings
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Different Immunofluorescence findings in Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis: Linear Immunofluorescence Pattern
* Goodpasture syndrome
* have an antibody against collagen in glomerular and alveolar basement membranes
* Presents as hematuria and hemoptysis
* Clasically in young adults
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Different Immunofluorescence findings in Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis: Granular Immunofluorescence Pattern
* Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis (PSGN) or diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis
* Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis is due to diffuse antigen-antibody complex deposition in the sup-endothelial
* Most common type of disease in SLE
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Different Immunofluorescence findings in Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis: Negative Immunofluorescence Pattern
* limited immune so need to perform C-ANCA (Anti-proteinase 3 which binds in cytoplasm) and P-ANCA (Anti-myeloperoxidase which binds around nucleus)
* Positive C-ANCA (Anti-proteinase 3): Granulomatosis with polyangitis
* get involvement of lung = hemoptysis
* get involvement of kidney = rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
* also involves nasopharynx: ex. sinus infections
* nasopharynx symptoms not seen in Goodpasture syndrome
* Positive P-ANCA (Anti-myeloperoxidase)
* Microscopic polyangitis or Churg-Strauss
* granulomatous inflammation, eosinophilia and asthma are only seen in Churg-Strauss
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What is IgA nephropathy (Berger Disease)?
* IgA immune complex deposition in mesangium of glomeruli
* most common nephropathy worldwide
* Presents during childhood as episodic gross or micrscopic hematuria with RBC casts, usually following mucosal infections
* IgA is increased during infections
* IgA immune complex deposition in the mesangium is seen on immunoflorescence
* May slowly progress to renal failure
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What is Alport Syndrome?
* Inherited defect in Type IV collagen
* Mostly X-linked
* Results in thinning and splitting of the glomerular basement membrane
* Presents as isolated hematuria, sensory hearing loss and ocular disturbances
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What is a urinary tract infection?
* Infection of urethra, bladder or kidney
* Most commonly arises due to ascending infection
* starts in urethra and works its way up
* Increased incidence in females
* Risk factors include sexual intercourse, urinary stasis, and catheters
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What is Cystitis and what are the symptoms?
* Infection of the bladder
* Presents as dysuria (painful urination), urgency and suprapubic pain
* systemic signs (fever) are usually absent
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Lab Findings of Cystitis
* Urinalysis:
* cloudy urine with \>10 WBCs/high power field
* Dipstick:
* positive leukocyte esterase (due to pyuria or pus in the urine)
* positive for nitrites (bacteria convers nitrates to nitrites)
* Culture: greater than 100,000 colony forming units
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What are the causes of Cystitis?
* E.Coli: most common
* Staphylococcus saprophyticus
* increased incidence in young, sexually active females (E. coli is still more common in that population)
* Klebsiella
* Proteus mirabilis
* alkaline urine with ammonia scent
* Enterococcus faecalis
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What is sterile pyuria and what does it suggest?
* Sterile pyuria is the presence of pyuria (pus) with a negative urine culture
* Suggests urethritis due to Chlamydia or Neisseria gonorrhoeae (dominant presenting sign of urethritis is dysuria)
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What is pyelonephritis and what causes it?
* Infection of the kidney
* Usually due to ascending infection
* Increased risk with vesicoureteral reflux
* Presents with fever, flank pain, WBC casts, and leukocytosis in addition to symptoms of cystitis (infection ascends from bladder to kidney)
* Most common pathogens are:
* E coli: 90%
* Enterococcus
* Klebsiella
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What is a white blood cell cast?
* when infection ascends up from the ureter to the kidney, WBCs follow by traveling up the kidney tubules
* WBCs end up taking the shape of the tubules
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What is Vesicoureteral reflux?
* ureters plug into the bladder at a particular angle to prevent reflux of urine back into the ureters
* if there is a malformation of this angle, there is an increased risk of reflux up into the kidney
* reflux into the kidney can lead to chronic scarring or fibrosis with atrophy of the tubules
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What is Chronic Pyelonephritis?
* Intersitial fibrosis and atrophy of tubules due to multiple bouts of acute pyelonephritis
* Due to vesicoureteral reflux (children) or obstruction (BPH or cervical carcinoma)
* Leads to cortical scarring with blunted calyces
* scarring at upper and lower poles is chracteristic of vesicoureteral reflux
* Atrophic tubules containing eosinophilic, proteinaceous material resemble thyroid follicles (thyroidization of the kidney)
* Waxy casts may be seen in urine
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What is nephrolithiasis?
* precipiation of a urinary solute as a stone
* Risk factors include high concentration of solute in the urinary filtrate and low urine volume
* low urine volume leads to increased concentration of solute
* Presents as colicky pain with hematuria and unilateral flank tenderness
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Frequency/Causes/Treatment for Calcium Oxalate or calcium phosphate kidney stones
* Frequency
* most common type
* Usually seen in adults
* Causes
* Most common cause is idiopathic hypercalciuria
* patient puts excess calcium into the urine and calcium level in the blood is normal
* Hypercalcemia and its related causes must be exluded
* Also seen with Crohn's Disease
* small bowel damage in Crohn's disease results in increased reabsorpiton of oxilate which can then bind calcium causing formation of calcium oxilate stone
* Treatment
* Hydrochlorothiazide (calcium sparing diuretic)
* decreases calcium in the urine
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Frequency/Causes/Treatment for Ammonium magnesium phosphate kidney stones
* Frequency:
* Second most common type
* Cause:
* Most common cause is infection with urease-positive organsims (Proteus vulgaris or Klebsiella)
* Alkaline urine leads to stone formation
* Treatment:
* Classically results in staghorn calculi in renal calyces which act as nidus for urinary tract infections
* treatment involves surgical removement of stone and eradication of pathogen
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Frequency/Causes/Treatment for Uric Acid Kidney Stones
* Not visible on X-Ray
* Frequency:
* Third most common stone
* Radiolucent as opposed to the other types which are radiopaque
* Causes:
* Risk factors include hot, arid climates, low urine volume, and acidic pH
* Most common stone seen in patients with gout
* Hyperuricemia (in leukemia or myeloproliferative disorders) increases risk
* in leukemia or myeloproliferative dirsorders, generating lots of cells so making lots of uric acid when breaking down nuclei
* Treatment:
* Treatment involves hydration and alkalinization of urine (potassium bicarbonate)
* Allopurinol is also adminstered in patients with gout
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Frequency/Causes/Treatment for Cystine Stones
* Frequency:
* rare cause of nephrolitiasis
* most commonly seen in children
* Causes:
* Associated with cystinuria
* a genetic defect of tubules that results in decreased reabsorption of cysteine
* cysteine piles up in the filtrate
* Treatment
* May form staghorn calculi
* Treatment involves hydration and alkalinization of the urine
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What is Chronic Kidney Failure and what causes it?
* AKA end-stage kidney failure
* May result from glomerular, tubular, inflammatory or vascular insults
* Most common causes are diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and glomerular diseases
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What are the clincial features of chronic kidney failure?
* Uremia
* Increased nitrogenous waste products in blood (azotemia) causes nausea, anorexia, pericarditis, platelet dysfunction, encephalopathy with asterixis and deposition of urea crystals in skin
* Salt and water retention with resultant hypertension
* Hyperkalemia with metabolic acidosis
* can't get rid of potassium and acid
* have anion gap metabolic acidosis
* Anemia due to decreased erythropoietin production by renal peritubular intersitital cells
* Hypocalemia due to decreased 1-alpha hydroxylation of vitamin D by proximal renal tubule cells and hyperphosphatemia
* phosphate binds with calcium so free calicum will be low
* Renal osteodystrophy (damage to the bone b/c of renal failure) due to secondary hyperparathyroidism, osteomalacia and osteoporosis
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What is renal osteodystrophy? What are the three components?
* damage to the bone that occurs b/c of renal failure
1. osteitis fibrosis cystica
* patients have hypocalcemia and thus PTH levels rise
* causes a reabsorption of calcium which causes burnout of the bone
* leads to fibrosis and cyst formation
2. Osteomalacia
* can't mineralize the new bone that forms
3. Osteoporosis
* patients have metabolic acidosis
* one of the buffering systems against metabolic acidosis is to buffer it against the bone
* calcium is leached from the bones
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What is the treatment for Chronic Renal Failure?
* Treatment involves diaylsis or renal transplant
* Cysts often develop within shrunken end-stage kidneys during dialysis, increasing risk for renal cell carcinoma
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What is an angiomyolipoma?
* Hamartoma comprised of blood vessels, smooth muscle and adipose tissue
* Increased frequency in tuberous sclerosis
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What is Renal Cell Carcinoma and what are the clinical findings for it?
* Malignant epithelial tumor arising from kidney tubules
* Presents with classic triad of hematuria, palpable mass and flank pain
* all three symptoms rarely occur together
* Hematuria is the most common symptom
* Fever, weight loss or multiple paraneoplastic syndrome may also be present
* Rarely may present with left-sided varicocele
* left spermatic vein drains into renal vein on left side
* blockage of the left renal vein will cause the left spermatic vein to varicocele
* Right spermatic vein drains directly into the IVC thus right sided varicocele is not seen
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What are the lab findings for Renal Carcinoma?
* gross exam reveals a yellow mass
* microscopically, the most common variant exhibits clear cytoplasm
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What causes Renal Carcinoma and what are the two forms of it?
* Pathogenesis involves loss of VHL (3p) tumor suppressor gene, which leads to increased IGF-1 (promotes growth) and increased HIF trasncription factor (increases VEGF and PDGF)
* Tumors may be hereditary or sporadic
* Sporadic tumors classically arise in adult males (60 years) as a single tumor in the upper pole of the kidney
* Major risk factor for sporadic tumors is cigarette smoke
* Hereditary tumors arise in younger adults and are often bilateral
* Von Hippel-Lindau disease is an autosomal dominant disorder associated with inactivation of VHL gene leading to increased risk for hemangioblastoma of the cerebellum and renal cell carcinoma
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What is Wilm's Tumor?
* Malignant kidney tumor comprised of blastema (immature kidney mesenchyme), primitive glomeruli and tubules and stromal cells
* Most common malignant renal tumor in children
* Average age is 3 yrs
* Presents as large, unilateral flank mass with hematuria and hypertension due to renin secretion
* Most cases are sporadic
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Syndromic Wilm's Tumors are found in what disorders?
1. WAGR syndrome
* **W**ilms tumor
* **A**niridia
* **G**enital abnormalities
* mental and motor **R**etardation
* associated with deletion of WT1 tumor supressor gene
2. Denys-Drash Syndrome
* Wilms tumor, progressive renal (glomerular) disease and male pseudohermaphroditism
* Associated with mutations of WT1
3. Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
* Wilms tumor, neonatal hypoglycemia, muscular hemihypertrophy (muscles are different sizes on each side), and organomegaly
* Associated with mutations in WT2 gene cluster especially IGF-2
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What is Urothelial (Transitional Cell) Carcinoma? What are the risk factors for it and how does it present?
* Malignant tumor arising from urothelial lining of the renal pelvis, ureter, bladder or urethra
* Most common type of lower urinary tract cancer
* Usually arises in the bladder
* Major risk factor is cigarette smoke
* Other risk factors are napthylamine (also in cig smoke), azo dyes and long term cyclophosphamide or phenacetin use
* Generally seen in older adults
* Classically presents with painless hematuria
* Tumors are often multifocal and recur
* often have multiple tumors that recur
* Have field deficit: all of endothelial surface is mutated and its only a matter of time before multiple tumors develop
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What are the two pathaways that Urothelial (Transitional Cell) Carcinoma arises from?
1. Flat
* develops as high-grade flat tumor and then invades
* associated with early p53 mutations
2. Papillary
* develops as long grade papillary tumor that progresses to a high grade papillary tumor and then invades
* not associated with early p53 mutation
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What is squamous cell carcinoma?
* Malignant proliferation of squamous cells, usually involves the bladder
* arises in a background of squamous metaplasia (normal bladder surface is not lined by squamous epithelium)
* Risk factors include chronic cystitis (causes chronic infection), Schistosoma haematobium infection (Egyptian male), and long standing nephrolithiasis
* Chronic inflammation is a risk factor
* Schistosoma embeds itself in bladder wall and causes chronic inflammation
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Adenocarcinoma
* Malignant proliferation of glands, usually involving bladder
* Causes:
* Urachal remnant: tumor develops at the dome of the bladder
* urachus connects fetus to bladder with yoke sac
* allows bladder to drain waste into the yoke sac
* goes from the dome of the bladder through the umbilical cord
* lined by glandular cells
* supposed to go away but if it doesn't can cause cancer
* Cystitis glandularis
* chronic inflammation of the bladder resulting in columnar metaplasia in the bladder
* Exstrophy
* congenital failure to form the caudal portion of the anterior abdominal wall and bladder walls
* exposes part of the bladder to the outside world
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Bartter Syndrome (AR)
* Reabsorptive defect in NaCl in the thick ascending loop
* Acts like loop diuretic
* losing sodium, potassium and chloride
* causes you to have a metabolic alkalosis b/c losing chloride
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Gitelman syndrome
* reabsportive defect in NaCl in distal convoluted tubule
* Acts like thiazide diuretic
* less severe than Bartter syndrome
* only losing sodium and chloride
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Liddle Syndrome
* Gain of function mutation of Na+ channel
* Increased Na+ reabsorption in collecting duct
* mimics having too much aldosterone
* Losing K+
* Results in hypertension
* Treat with Amiloride (K+ sparing)
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Common Causes of Metabolic Alkalosis
* Vomitting
* Loop Diuretics
* Hyperaldosteronism
* Antacid use
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Common Causes of Anion gap Metabolic Acidosis
* Addition of an acid that isn't Hydrochloric acid
* MUDPILES
* **M**ethanol
* **U**remia
* **D**iabetic Ketoacidosis
* **P**ropylene glycol
* **I**ron tablets
* **L**actic acidosis
* **E**thylene glycol
* **S**alicylates
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Common Causes of Normal Gap Metabolic Acidosis
* Addition of Hydrochloric acid
* HARDASS
* **H**yperalimentation
* **A**ddison disease
* **R**enal tubular acidosis
* **D**iarrhea
* **A**cetazolamide
* **S**pironolactone (hypoaldosteronism)
* **S**aline infusion
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What is Winter's Formula?
PCO2 = 1.5 (HCO3) +6-10
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Anion Gap Formula
* AG= Na - (HCO3 + Cl)
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What can cause a low Anion gap?
* albumen is low
* Unmeasured cations are high such as due to light chain excess (multiple myeloma)
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Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis Type 1
* Distal tubule can't get rid of hydrogen ion
* Can't acidy the urine so the urine pH is very high (alkaline)
* Defect in ability to alpha intercollated cells to secrete H+
* Alpha intercolated cells can't reclaim K+ resulting in hypokalemia
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Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis Type 4
* Hypoaldosteronism reuslting in hyperkalemia thus causing increased NH3 synthesis in Proximal convoluted tubule and decreased urine buffering of H+
* Will have high urine pH
* No aldosterone so can't exchange H+ ion to reabsorb in Na+
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Type II Renal Tubular Acidosis
* Problem with HCO3 reabsorption in proximal convoluted tubule
* Classically caused by Franconi Syndrome
Pathoma Renal
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