Renal Step UP Flashcards
What improves the prognosis of CRF patients?
Protein restriction and the use of ACE inhibitors
When do ACE inhibitors actually hurt CRF?
When the Cr is >3-3.5
Captopril is a….
ACE inhibitor
What doesn’t affect CRF prognosis?
Salt restriction and potassium restriction
HIV kidney damage is
Collapsing focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis
Typical presentation of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Nephritic range proteinuria, azotemia, and normal sized kidneys
Nitrites signify what
The presence of Enterobacteriaceae
Elderly patient with bone pain, renal failure, and hypercalcemia has
Multiple myeloma until proven otherwise
Initial hematuria
Urethral damage
Terminal hematuria
Bladder/Prostatic damage
Total hematuria
Kidney/Ureter damages
Clots and kidney disease
Not seen
BPH starts where in the prostate
Center
Prostate cancer starts where in the prostate
Peripheral
Metformin is bad for what
RF, hepatic failure or sepsis, it causes Lactic Acidosis! which RF and HF already make worse
Nephritic syndrome presents with
Dependent edema, HTN, hematuria (dysmorphic RBCs and red cell casts). May also see Rash, low-grade fever, and proteinuria.
Workup of BPH starts with
Serum Cr and UA
Signs of dehydration
Dry Mucosa, higher values for Hct and serum electrolytes, BUN/Cr >20. Use crystalloid
What to do for testing in an old person with irritative voiding symptoms and negative urine culture
R/o bladder cancer: e.g. urinary cytology and cystoscopy
Treating recurrent hypercalciuric renal stones
Increased fluid intake, sodium restriction, and a thiazide.
Cystinuria presents with
H/o recurrent kidney stones from childhood and positive FH. Stones are radiopaque, hexagonal.
Test for cystinuria
Urinary cyanide nitroprusside test positive
Most common kidney stones?
Calcium oxalate 75-90%
Small bowel disease, surgical resection, or chronic diarrhea can lead to what
Calcium oxalate stones from malabsorption of fatty acids and bile salts….???
Acyclovir and the kidney
Can precipitate in renal tubules and cause ARF. Prevent with adequate hydration.
Acute pyelonephritis: UCx/BCx or Abx first
UCx/BCx before starting Abx
Hodgkin’s lymphoma causes what
Minimal change disease: nephrotic syndrome
Most common nephropathy associated with cancer
Membranous nephropathy
Renal vein thrombosis and what condition connected
Membranous glomerulonephritis: nephrotic syndrome
Most common nephrotic syndrome
Membranous glomerulonephritis in adults
Contrast-induced nephropathy risk factors
Patients with diabetes and elevated baseline Cr
How to prevent contrast damage
IV hydration with isotonic bicarb and acetylcysteine
Most common nephrotic syndrome in blacks
FSGS
Nephrotic syndrome in HIV and IV drug abuse
FSGS
Fibromuscular disease can present in children?
Yes with a bruit or venous hum at CVA. Angiogram reveals string of beads sign.
Signs of diabetic nephropathy
Glomerular hyperfiltration is the earliest sign, which also causes the glomerular injury.
The first sign of diabetic nephropathy that can be quantitated
Thickening of the glomerular basement membrane
Presence of hematuria in a patient with irritative voiding…
Bladder cancer
BPH and hematuria
Not related, neither is suprapubic pain and systemic complaints
Most common cause of overflow incontinence in old males
Enlarged prostate
What to do when you have isolated proteinuria
Dipstick on at least two other occasions
Most common causes of interstitial nephritis
Cephalosporins, penicillins, sulfonamides, lasix, NSAIDs, rifampin, phenytoin, allopurinol.
Treatment for drug induced interstitial nephritis
Discontinue the drug
Medullary cystic disease presents with
Recurrent UTI, renal stones, and contrast filled cysts demonstrated by IVP
Old patients with poor oral intake and NSAIDs, ACEIs, and diuretics can have
Prerenal azotemia due to intravascular volume depletion and poor renal perfusion
Causes of acute pericarditis
Viral infection (most common), bacterial infections, connective tissue diseases, uremia
How to treat patients with pericarditis and RF
Hemodialysis to get rid of the uremia that is causing the pericarditis
Indications for hemodialysis
Refractory hyperkalemia, volume overload not responding to diuretics, refractory metabolic acidosis (pH<7.2), uremic pericarditis, uremic encephalopathy or neuropathy, coagulopathy due to renal failure
Treating pericarditis
NSAIDs can help, but they are bad in RF
Most common glomerulonephritis
IgA nephropathy
IgA Nephropathy presents with
Episodes of gross hematuria, beginning 1-3 days after an upper respiratory infection. Serum complement levels are normal.
What to do first in complicated acute pyelonephritis
Start empiric antibiotics
Signs of drug induced interstitial nephritis
Eosinophiluria, rash, arthralgias, renal failure
MOA of cyclosporine
Calcineurin inhibitor
Most common SE of cyclosporine
Nephrotoxicity. Most serious as well.