Renal Pathology Puthoff Lecture Flashcards
What do kidneys do?
- Excrete certain waste products of metabolism
- Precisely regulate the body’s concentration of water, salt, calcium, phosphorus and other/cations/anions
- Serve as an endocrine organ–elaborating erythropoietin, renin, PGs, and regulating vitamin D metabolism
- Convert mor than 1700 L of blood prepay into the highly specialized, concentrated fluid known as urine
The glomerulus is what kind of organ
microvascular
The most common cause of end stage renal disease (ESRD) and second most cause? other causes?
- Diabetes is most common cause
- High BP is 2nd
- Other problems that cause kidney failure include: autoimmune diseases, such as Lupus and IgA nephropathy
Are most people with ESRD old or young? What ethnic groups most affected?
- young–63% under age 65
- Hispanics and Asian Americans fastest growing ethnic groups newly diagnosed with ESRD
- Currently more than 20 million Americans have some level of chronic kidney disease related to diabetes; as diabetes increases, demand for dialysis will too
CKD associated with what vitamin deficiency and what disease
- Folate
- which is associated with hyperhomocystenimia which is also associated with an increased risk for stroke/ASCVD
What happens if you only have one kidney?
- the single nephron GFR goes up and over time will lead to glomerulosclerosis
- Also causes elaboration of renin that occurs from golblat phenomenon?
The kidneys are what kind of organs? (intraperotineal or retroperitoneal?) at what level?
retroperitoneal
at the level of T12
Why is right kidney lower than left?
because of its position under the liver on the right
Where is the Renal angle?
Between lower border of 12th rib and lateral border of elector spinae muscle–Renal colic pain starts from this angle down and forwards to groin (CVA)–goes about to L2
How common are renal cysts?
- Common–More than 50% of those over 50% have parenchymal kidney cysts
- Generally small, contain serous fluid, unremarkable dilations of proximal tubules
- Often small and asymptomatic and are generally incidental findings, but can become quite large
Types of cysts (not all are small and unremarkable!!)
- simple cysts
- multilocular–subdivisions, some with smooth muscles in the wall
- dysplastic kidney–congenital anomalies
- adult and juvenile polycystic disease
- cystic tumor–some renal cell carcinomas can become cystic and have hemorrhagic areas
How do most diseases/disroders of the kidney present?
-hematuria–SCHITTT: stones, congenital anomalies, hemologic abnormalities like coagulopathies, infection, trauma, tumor, tuberculosis
-proteinuria
-edema
-mass
-HTN
-oliguria
-anuria
-asymptomatic
increased serum/urine creatinine
-decreased creatinine clearance
-increased serum BUN
By the time you palpate a mass for RCC what has happened?
the tumor has already metastasized if it is palpable
Single most important question to ask patient suspected of having renal disease and why is this the most important question?
Have you had this before?
-Because distinct differences between acute and chronic kidney diseases
Common imaging techniques of the kidney and associated GU organs
- US
- KUB–plain Ab film (not as common any more)
- Renal tomography
- IVP (not as common anymore bc associated with anaphylaxis and more invasive)
- Retrograde pyelography
Other techniques to evaluate the ureter, bladder or urethra
- Cystography
- Voiding urethrography
Additional imaging techniques of the kidney
- CT scan
- MRI, MRA
- Rdionuclide imaging
- Renal angiography
Techniques utilized on renal biopsy material
- light microscopy: standard stain (H&E), other (PAS, silver stains)
- Flouorescence microscopy (variety of targeted immunologic entities–glomerular diseases)
- Electron microscopy (transmission)
- *WITH URINALYSIS
- Other techniques: increasingly, molecular and genetic analyses
Passage of materials through a membrane by a physical force
filtration
Osmosis is the diffusion of water across what kind of membrane
semipermeable–necessary for osmosis bc it restricts the movement of certain solutes allowing solvent to pass through but water can pass freely
Glomerulus is?
capillary loops between afferent and efferent arterioles
Most filtration occurs at which end of capillary bed? and osmosis/colloid osmotic pressure occurs at which end?
- filtration= arteriolar
- osmosis=venule via plasma proteins
Osmotic vs oncotic pressure
- osmotic=pressure developed by solutes dissolved in water working across selectively permeable membrane
- oncotic=colloid osmotic pressure which is form of osmotic pressure exerted by proteins (albumin) in a blood vessel’s plasma that pulls water into circulatory system
Typical normal pattern for serum protein electrophoresis
- positive pole=large quantities of albumin (small molecule) migrates fastest towards positive pole
- positive to negative pole order: albumin, alpha1, alpha2, beta, gamma
Multiple myeloma serum protein electrophoresis findings
-IgG plasma cell malignancy dyscrasia with kappa light chains
Bence-Jones proteins effects on kidneys
-deposition of light chains in tubules which causes lots of tubular damage and can ultimately cause chronic renal failure
organs involved in causing edema in congestive heart failure
-kidney and liver
Nephrotic syndrome
-generalized edema
What can cause generalized edema
- kidney failure
- heart (congestive heart failure)
- Liver (not producing enough plasma proteins)
- GI proteins (caused by losing proteins–protein losing enteropathies)
- Lungs–because of its effect on the heart
What are the compartments or major morphologic components of the kidney?
- Glomeruli
- Tubules
- Interstitium
- Vessels
- Tubules and vessels are in interstitium)
Is diabetes primarily what kind of disease?
What about hypertension?
- diabetes=GLOMERULAR disease (microvasculature) manifestations
- HTN=vascular (arteriolar) disease manifestations (TUBULOINTERSTITIAL DISEASE)
The general category of glomerular disorders is considered due to ____ disease
- immunologic (primary or secondary)
- but diabetes effect on kidney is largely hemodynamic not immunologic in terms of diabetic nephropathy
is glomerulonephritis due to infection? Difference bw glomerulonephritis and glomerulopathy
- in most cases no! but may have inflammatory infiltrates
- they are the same
How does the interstitium react to chronic kidney disease?
-by becoming fibrotic and may see some degree of inflammation and some edema of the interstitium as well
What diseases do you see nephrosclerosis?
- HTN
- diabetes
- other disorders that affect blood vessels
difference between azotemia and uremia?
-uremia is azotemia PLUS a constellation of clinical findings and biochemical abnormalities resulting from renal damage
Acute Kidney injury
- Rapid decline in GFR
- Most severe form exhibit oliguria or anuria
- May result from glomerular, interstitial, vascular or acute tubular injury (ATN)
- Can be reversible, or progress to CKD
CKD
- mild–clinically silent
- more severe–uremia
- defined with diminished GFR
ESRD
-GFR
Which disorders are characteristic of glomerular disease? And which disorders are characteristic of tubulointerstitial disease? Which are characteristic of both?
-Glomerular: nephritic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome, ASYMPTOMATIC hematuria or proteinuria
Tubulointerstitial: UTI, UT obstruction, renal tumors, nephrolithiasis
BOTH: renal tubular defects and acute renal failure
difference between neprholithiasis and nephrocalcinosis
- nephrolithiasis is kidney stones
- nephrocalcinosis is dystrophic calcification of kidney parenchyma
Why do you see lipids in nephrotic syndrome?
-bc when kidney is stressed it tries to make more proteins and the pathway it goes into makes lipoproteins that deposit primarily in proximal tubule
Glomerular disease characterized by severe proteinuria (albumin) (more than 3.5gm/day–less in children), severe edema, hyperlipidemia, and lipiduria
Nephrotic syndrome
Glomerular disease dominated by acute onset of grossly visible hematuria, mild to moderate proteinuria, and hypertension. Proteinuria and edema common but not as severe
-Nephritic syndrome
signs of nephritic syndrome with rapid decline (days-weeks) in glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Implies severe glomerular injury
- Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
- nephritic
- protein in urine but LESS than 3.5 gm/day;
- normal protein in urine is about UPTO 150mg/day
Isolated urinary abnormalities
-glomerular hematuria and/or subnephrotic range proteinuria