RENAL/UROLOGY Flashcards
Maximum safe rate of potassium infusion?
10mmol/hour
Most likely cause of death from Dialysis
Ischaemic Heart Disease
mx of hypercalciuria causing renal stones
thiazide diuretcis
Alt for spiro if gynae too much?
Eplerenone
What is sevelamer used for
Phosphate replacement
What is a normal anion gap
6-16
What classifies urinary retention as high pressure
if there is renal dysfunction or hydronephrosis
When to refer to nephrology in CKD?
When Egfr below 30 or DROP IN 15 IN A YEAR
Prognosis for HSP
Prognosis for Nephrotic Syndrome in a Child
Full Renal Recovery
Recovery but with frequent relapse.
UROLOGICAL SE of SSRI’s
ED
BP targets in those with CKD and T2DM
<130/80
Mx of salicylate poisoning
IV Sodium Bicarbonate
Mx of benzodiapene overdose
Flumenazil
Mx of opiate overdose
Naloxone
Prostatitis mx
Ciproflox for 14 days
Definitive Mx of Renal Stones
Lithotripsy
Pregnant: Ureteroscopy
Complex or staghorn: Percutaneous Nepjrolithotomy
Thickened Basement Membrane
PLA2R
Sub Epithelial Spikes
MEMBRANOUS NEPHROPATHY
Surgical Mx of Bladder Cancer
Superficial Lesion: Transurethral resection
Deeper: Radical Cystectomy or radical radio
Urgent Ix in renal colic and why
U+E’s to assess renal function
At what stage does RCC commonly become symptomatic
4
Differentiation between HSP and ITP
HSP has polyarthralgia and ITP does not
Common radiologic finding of CKD
Exceptions?
Bilaterally shrunken
Amyloid
HIV
Diabetic
ADPKD
BILATERALLY ENLARGED
Acceptable level of reduction in renal function in kidney patients taking an ACE
Decrease in EGFR in 25
Increases in Creatinine by 30%
What is alfacalcidol used as
Vit D replacement in. end stage renal disease
