Renal 2 Flashcards
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What is Cystitis?
• Cystitis is an inflammation of the bladder caused by irritation or, more commonly, by infection from bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites
True or false
• Laboratory assessment for a UTI is a urinalysis performed on a clean-catch midstream specimen with testing for leukocyte esterase and nitrate.
True
Symptoms of a UTI
• Frequency, urgency, and dysuria are the common manifestations of a urinary tract infection, but cloudy, foul smelling, or blood tinged urine may occur.
True or false
• Infectious cystitis can lead to complications, including pyelonephritis and sepsis
True
What is Urethritis?
- Urethritis is an inflammation of the urethra that causes symptoms similar to UTI.
- In men, manifestations of urethritis are burning or difficulty with urination and a discharge from the urethral meatus, usually caused by sexually transmitted diseases.
- In women, urethritis causes manifestations similar to those of bacterial cystitis
True or false
The most common symptom of urethral stricture is obstruction of urine flow
True
What is Urolithiasis?
- Urolithiasis is the presence of calculi or stones in the urinary tract.
- Stones often do not cause symptoms until they pass into the lower urinary tract, where they can cause excruciating pain.
• Nephrolithiasis is stones in the kidney and ureterolithiasis is stones in the ureter.
True
What is renal colic?
• The major manifestation of stones is severe pain, commonly called renal colic, most intense when the stone is moving or when the ureter is obstructed.
What is lithotripsy?
• Lithotripsy, also known as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, is the use of sound, laser, or dry shock waves to break the stone into small fragments. `
Urothelial cancer
• Urothelial cancers are malignant tumors of the urothelium, the lining of transitional cells in the kidney, renal pelvis, ureters, urethra, and mostly, the bladder. • The only significant finding on a routine urinalysis is gross or microscopic hematuria
What are used after a cystectomy?
• Four alternatives are used after cystectomy: ileal conduit, continent pouch, bladder reconstruction also known as neobladder, and ureterosigmoidostomy.
What do the kidneys do?
- The kidneys also help regulate blood pressure and acid-base balance, produce erythropoietin for red blood cell synthesis, and convert vitamin D to an active form.
- The kidneys have both regulatory and hormonal functions.
- The “working” units of the kidney consist of 1 million nephrons per kidney, each of which forms urine from blood.
- The kidney processes are glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption, and tubular secretion, which use filtration, diffusion, active transport, and osmosis.
What is the normal GFR?
• Normal glomerular filtration rate averages 125 mL/min, but only about 1 to 3 L are excreted each day as urine and the rest is reabsorbed back into the circulation
Renal changes that occur with age
o The kidney loses cortical tissue and gets smaller by 80 years of age.
o The glomerular and tubular linings thicken, reducing filtrating ability.
o Blood flow to the kidney decreases by about 10% per decade as blood vessels thicken resulting in less adaptive renal blood flow.
o The combination of reduced kidney mass, reduced blood flow, and decreased GFR contribute to reduced drug clearance and a greater risk for drug reactions and kidney damage from drugs and contrast dyes in older adults.
o Tubular changes decrease ability to concentrate urine, resulting in nocturnal polyuria.
Labs relevant to kidney function
- Serum creatinine is produced when protein or muscle breaks down, which is usually constant, therefore, the serum creatinine level is a good indicator of kidney function.
- Urea nitrogen is filtered and excreted in the urine so BUN levels indicate renal clearance of this nitrogen waste product, but don’t always reflect renal disease.
- Blood urea nitrogen to serum creatinine ratio can help determine whether nonrenal factors, such as dehydration or poor renal perfusion, are causing the elevated BUN.
- Ideally, urine specimens are collected at the morning’s first voiding.
- Urine color, specific gravity, pH level, and the presence of glucose, ketone bodies, nitrates, and proteins, which normally are not present in urine, are assessed.
- Urine is analyzed for the number and types of organisms present
What is polycystic kidney disease?
- Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited disorder where fluid-filled cysts develop.
- In the dominant form, patients in their 30s have cysts in only a few nephrons.
- In the recessive form of the disease, nearly 100% of patients’ nephrons have cysts present since birth.
- Over time, small cysts become larger and nephron function becomes less effective.
- The kidney tissue is eventually replaced by nonfunctioning cysts, which look like clusters of grapes, and the kidneys enlarge.
- People who inherit the recessive form usually die in early childhood.
Hydronephrosis vs. hydroueter
- Hydronephrosis and hydroureter are problems of urine outflow obstruction.
- Prompt recognition and treatment are crucial to prevent permanent renal damage.
- In hydronephrosis, the kidney enlarges as urine collects in the pelvis and kidney tissue damaging the blood vessels and renal tubules.
- In patients with hydroureter and urethral stricture, obstructions are lower.
Pyelonephritits
- Urinary tract infection is an infection in the normally sterile system.
- Acute pyelonephritis involves an active bacterial infection and tissue inflammation, tubular cell necrosis, and possible abscess formation anywhere in the kidney.
- Chronic pyelonephritis often occurs with a lower urinary tract defect, obstruction, kidney stones, or, most commonly, when urine refluxes from the bladder back into the ureters.
- Chronic pyelonephritis has a less dramatic presentation, such as nonspecific urinary symptoms or abdominal discomfort or repeated, low-grade fevers.
- Urinalysis shows a positive leukocyte esterase and nitrite dipstick test and the presence of white blood cells and bacteria.
True of false
• Glomerulonephritis is the third leading cause of end-stage renal disease.
True
Chronic glomerulonephritis,
- Chronic glomerulonephritis, or chronic nephritic syndrome, develops over 20 to 30 years or even longer, yet the exact onset of the disorder is rarely identified.
- Mild proteinuria and hematuria, hypertension, and occasional edema are often the only manifestations.
What is nephrotic syndrome?
Nephrotic syndrome is a condition of increased glomerular permeability that allows massive loss of protein in urine, edema formation, and decreased plasma albumin.
• The most common cause of glomerular membrane changes is an immune or inflammatory process.
Nephroscerosis
- Nephrosclerosis is a problem of thickening in the blood vessels, resulting in narrowing of the vessel lumen and decreased renal blood flow.
- Nephrosclerosis occurs with hypertension, atherosclerosis, and diabetes mellitus.
- The changes may be reversible or may progress to end-stage renal disease.
- Treatment aims to control high blood pressure and reduce albuminuria.