Quiz 2 Flashcards
What is the Henderson hasslebach equation
PH= 6.1 + log ([HCO3]/[pCO x 0.3])
What are the ranges for academia and alkalemia
<7.35 - acidemia
> 7.45 - alkalemia
What indicates a respiratory vs metabolic acidosis
Metabolic: HCO3 <20
Respiratory: pCO2 > 45
What differentiates a metabolic vs respiratory alkalosis
Metabolic: HCO3 > 30
Respiratory: pCO2 <35
What are some causes of acidosis
DKA, lactic acidosis, ingestion of ethylene glycol, methanol, propylene glycol, salicylates; loss of bicarbonate (diarrhea), AKI or chronic kidney dz
What conditions cause a normal anion gap metabolic acidosis
Diarrhea, ileal loop, renal tubular acidosis, carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, post hypocapnia
What causes a high anion gap metabolic acidosis
-salicylates, methanol, paraldehye, ethylene glycol, ketoacidosis, EtOH, lactic acidosis uremia
What are sx of acidosis
Flu - like; tachypnea and tachycardia (catecholamine release), pulm edema, increased serum glucose
What is a normal anion gap
8-12; its positive because you dont measure albumin
What is the compensation formula for metabolic acidosis
PCO2 = (1.5 x [HCO3]) + 8 (+/- 2) : if PCO2 doesn’t match then likely mixed
What does MUD PILES stand for
- Methanol/metformin
- Uremia
- DKA
- Paraldehyde/propylene glycol, phenformin
- Isoniazid/iron toxicity
- lactic acidosis *includes cyanide and CO poisoning, seizures, sepsis an ischemia
- ethanol/ethylene glycol
- salicylates
What are some causes of rhabdomyolysis
Seizure, extreme exercise, heat stroke, malignant hyperthermia, trauma, crush injury, immobilization, compartment syndrome; statins, SSRI, Cocaine, creatine, alcohol, toluene, CO, quail poisoning, mushroom poisoning; hypokalemia, hypophasphtema, influenza
What are the signs and sx of rhabdomyolysis
Decreased urine output, reddish brown color (myoglobin), heme + but no RBCs, positive protein, granular casts on micro; elevated CK, hyperkalemia, hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia
How does DKA occur
Intracellular hypoglycemia activates fatty acid degredation which lead to a large amount of ketones
Why do people with DKA start vomiting
Compensatory mechanism (drives towards alkalosis)
What does binge drinking do to insulin levels
Decreases them
What is ethylene glycol
Found in anti-freeze ; metabolized by alcohol DH to glycolic aid an then to oxalic acid; increased NADH levels encourage formation of lactic acid; *presents with intoxication, low BAC level, and HAGMA without ketones, calcium oxalate crystals in urine that fluoresce under wood lamps
What is characteristic of methanol poisoning
Blurry vision
How does salicylate toxicity present
Tachypnea (induces a respiratory alkalosis), tinnitus, agitation, seizures, coma, *salicylic acid contributes very little to acid load
How does renal failure lead to a high anion gap
Accumulation of sulfate, phosphate and other anions
Is acidosis common in chronic kidney dz
No* buffered by other organs as well as dietary changes and dialysis help prevent this
What are the alpha 1 receptor antagonists use to treat BPH
Terazosin, doxazosin, tamsulosin, silodosin, alfuzosin
What do the alpha 1 antagonists do to treat BPH
Relax m tone; *rapid relief of sx (days)
What does activation of each of the subsets of the alpha 1 receptors do
Alpha 1A: m contraction -> bladder outlet obstruction
Alpha 1D: detrusor instability
What do alpha 1 antagonists compete with
NE
Which alpha antagonists are not uroselective
Terazosin and doxazosin
What are the side effects of terazosin and doxazosin
Postural hypotension, dizziness, fatigue
What receptors are tamsulosin and silodosin specific or
Alpha 1A and alpha 1D
What are the side effects of tamsulosin an silodosin
Reduced ejaculation; IFIS (floppy iris syndrome)
Is alfuzosin specific for certain alpha 1 Receptors
No; but it is uroselective
What are the side effects of alfuzosin
QT prolongation
What drug interactions do all alpha 1 antagonists have
interact with PDE-5 inhibitors (sildenafil and vardenafil)
Which alpha 1 antagonists are metabolized by CYP 3A4
Tamsulosin, silodosin, alfuzosin
When should you avoid administration of alfuzosin
Hepatic impairment
When should you take alfuzosin
Immediately after same meal every day
What are the steroid 5alpha reductase inhibitors
Finasteride and dutasteride
What do the steroid 5alpha reductase inhibitors do
Prevent enlargement of and shrinks prostate; *delayed action - 3-6 months
What does a hyperplastic prostate have elevated levels of
SAR 2
Which steroid 5 alpha reductase inhibitor is specific
Finasteride (SAR-2); dunastride is a DUal inhibitor SAR 1 and 2
What is the effect of 5alpha reductase inhibitors on PSA
Decreases it
Which 5 alpha reductase inhibitor is more efficient at decreasing SERUM DHT
Dutasteride
What are the side effects of finasteride and dutasteride
ED, gynecomastia, depressed libido, ejatulation disturbances
Do the 5 alpha reductase inhibitors have drug interactions
No; but use caution with liver abnormalities by hepatic CYP3A
When do you use combination therapy for BPH
Severe sx of BPH, known to have large prostate, no response from monotherapy
What is tadalafil
PDE-5 inhibitor used to treat BPH an ED
What are the risk factors for ED
Obesity, smoking, stress, CV dz, adverse drug effect (diuretics, SSRI)
What are people with extrosphy of the bladder at risk for
Colonic glandular metaplasia and infections; adenocarcinoma
What are urachal cysts lined by
Either urothelium or metaplastic glandular epithelium
What kind of cancer can arise from urachal cysts
Carcinomas
What is the morphology of cystitis
Acute: hyperemia and neutrophil infiltrate *patients receiving cytotoxic antitumor drugs my developer hemorrhagic cystitis (adenovirus also causes this)
What is follicular cystitis
Presence of lymphoid follicle within the bladder mucosa
What is interstitial cystitis
Aka chronic pelvic pain syndrome; women; intermittent Supra public pain, urinary frequency, urgency, hematuria and dysuria, and cystoscope findings of fissures nd punctuate hemorrhages in the bladder mucosa; some are assoc with chronic mucosal ulcers (hunger ulcers) *increase mast cells is characteristic; r/o CIS
What is malakoplakia
Chronic inflammatory reaction that stems from acquired defects in phagocyte function; arises in setting of chronic bacterial infection occurs more in immunosuppressed transplant recipients
What is the morphology of malakoplakia
Soft yellow raised mucosal plaques filled with foamy macrophages that have abundant granular cytoplasm; *michaelis-Gutmann bodies present within macrophages (mineralized oncrtions from calcium in lysosomes)
What is polyploid cystitis
Inflammatory lesion resulting from irritation of the bladder urotheliumis thrown into broad bulbous polyploid projections
What is cystitis glandularis/cystica
Nests of urothelium (brunn nests) grown downward into lamina propria; epithelial cells in the center undergo metaplasia to cuboidal or columnar (glandularis) or retract to produce cystic spaces lined by flattened urothelium (cystica)
What is a nephrogenic adenoma
Unusual lesion that results from implantation of shed renal tubular cells at sits of injured urothelium; this tissue can be replaced by cuboidal epithelium whih can assume a papillary growth pattern
What are the precursor lesions to urothelial carcinoma
Noninvasive papillary tumors (most common) and flat noninvasive urothelial carcinoma
Invasion of what worsens the prognosis of bladder cancer
Muscularis propria
Is carcinoma of the bladder more common in men or women
Men
What are risk factors for bladder carcinoma
- smoking
- exposure to Aryl amines
- schisto haematobium (but mostly squamous)
- long term use of analgesics
- heavy long term exposure to cyclophosphamide (immunosuppressant) induces hemorrhagic cystitis
- irradiation
What mutations are seen in bladder cancer
- GOF of *FGFR3 (found in noninvasive low-grade papillary carcinomas)
- LOF in TP53 and RB (high grade and muscle invasive tumors)
- *HRAS activation (low grade noninvasive)
- =exclusive in bladder cancer
Losses of what chrom are common in bladder tumors
9; early events - first lose FGFR3, RAS and chrom 9 then lose TP53 and or RB
What is the morphology of papillary lesions of the bladder
Red, elevated; multiple tumors often present
What is the morphology of bladder papillomas
Often present in younger patients; single; attached by a stalk - exophytic; histo identical to urothelium; recurrences and progression rare; inverted papillomas are benign insisting o rods of urothelium that extend into the lamina propria
What are phosphodisterase inhibitors (PDE-5 inhibitors)
Sildenafil; competitive inhibitors
Which PDE-5 inhibitor has the fastest onset of action
Avanafil
Which PDE-5 inhibitors has the longest duration of action
Tadalafil (36 hrs)
Which PDE-5 inhibitors have to be taken on an empty stomach
Sildenafil an vardenafil
Which PDE-5 inhibitor has the longest half life
Tadalafil
What are the side effects of sildenafil, vardenafil, avanafil
Blue vision and blurred vision
What are the side effects of tadalafil
Back pain, myalgia, limb pain
What are the contraindications for PDE-5 inhibitors
Organic nitrates (extreme hypotension);
- specific to vardenafil: patient needs to be hemodynamically stable
- specific to tadalafil: when used or BPH, concurrent alpha 1 blockers not recommended
- specific to sildenafil: concurrent alpha blockers initiated at lowest dose
What are the second line ED therapies
Vacuum erection devices and penile injections with alprostadil (prostaglandin E1)
How does alprostadil work
Increased cAMP, decreased iCa2+, smooth m relaxation and eretion
What are the side effects of alprostadil
Prolonged erection (priapism) *medial emergency -> can result in permanent corporal fibrosis and ED; tx with sympathomimetic (phenlephrine) and aspiration
What is pagetoid spread
Scattered malignant cells in otherwise normal epithelium
What are mixed urothelial carcinomas with areas of SCC
More frequent than pure SCC of the bladder; typically invasive, fungating tumors or are ulcerative and infiltraive
What is a good screening method for CIS
FISH of urine samples for aneuploidy of chrom 3,7,17, and 9p
What do patients at high risk of recurrence or progression (CIS, papillary high grade tumors, Multifocal or LP invasion) get for treatment
Intravesical instillation of attenuated Mycobacterium Boris called bacillus calmette-guerin-> elicits inflammatory response that kills tumor
What is radical cystectomy reserved for
Tumors invading muscularis propria, CIS or high grade papillary cancer refractory to BCG, CIS extending into prostatic urethra and prostatic ducts (BCG cant reach)
What is the most common benign mesenchymal tumor of the bladder
Leiomyoma
What is the most common sarcoma in infancy or childhood
Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma can manifest as polyploid grape like mass called a sarcoma botryoides
What is the most common sarcoma in the bladder in adults
Leiomyosarcoma
What are the most common causes of obstruction of the bladder outlet
Males: prostate enlargement
Females: cystocele
What an happen secondary to BPH
Hypertrophy and trabeculation of bladder wall
What is an example of non infectious urethritis
Reactive arthritis
What is a urethral caruncle
Inflammatory lesion that presents as a small red painful mass at the external urethral meatus usually in older females; consists of inflamed granulation tissue covered by intact but extremely friable mucosa which can ulcerate and bleed *surgical excision
What are the benign tumors of the urethra
squamous and urothelial papillomas, inverted urothelial papillomas, condylomas
What is primary carcinoma of the urethra
- proximal urethra: analogous to those occurring within later
- distal: SCC
- adenocarcinomas are rare but when they do occur, occur more often in women
What is the difference between epi and hypospadias
Epi is on dorsal side; hypo is on ventral
What are complications of hypospadias/epispadias
UTI, infertility
What is phimosis
When orifice of prepuce is too small to permit its normal retraction; frequently the result of repeated infection; favors development of secondary infections and possibly carcinoma
What is balanoposhitis
Infection of glans and prepuce; caused by candida, aerobic bacteria, gardnerella, and pyogenic bacteria; most cases occur cause of poor local hygiene in uncircumcised males -> accumulate smegma
What is the morphology of condylomata acuminata
Single or multiple sessile or pedunculated red papillary excrescences; superficial hyperkeratosis and thickening of underlying epidermis (acanthosis); no dysplasia; koilocytosis (vacuolization of squamous cells)
What is peyronie dz
Results in fibrous bands involving corpus cavernousum; lesions result in penile curvature and pain during intercourse
Which lesions of the male external genitalia display CIS
Bowen dz and bowenoid papulosis; strong association with infection by HPV type 16
What is Bowen dz
Occurs in men and women, usually > 35; in me: involves skin of shaft and scrotum; appears as solitary thickened gray-white opaque plaque; can manifest on the glans and prepuce s single or multiple shiny red velvety plaques histo: epidermis is hyperproliferative, dysplastic can transform to SCC
What is bowenoid papulosis
Occurs in sexually active adults; distinguished from Bowen dz by younger age of affected patients and presentation as multiple reddish brown papular lesions; never develops into invasive carcinoma
What confers protection against SCC of penis
Circumcision (rare in Jews and Muslim)
What increases risk of SCC of penis
HPV and smoking
What is an uncomplicated UTI
Nonpregnant outpatient women without an atomic abnormalities or instrumentation of urinary tract
What is a complicated UTI
Urinary obstruction, urinary retention cause by neuro dz, immunosuppression, renal failure, renal transplantation, pregnancy, foreign bodies (calculus, indwelling catheters)